TIRANA, May 23/ATA/ Writer Arian Leka is the winner of the 42nd edition of the “Tudor Arghezi” International Literature Festival 2022 award for foreign authors. Leka was praised for his poetic and essay work, successfully published in several foreign languages and especially in Romanian (with the volume “Sleeping Ship” and “Floating Library” – anthology author).
The jury highly appreciated the stylistic and thematic innovations, as well as the surprising depth of Arian Leka’s poetics, not only as a representative of Albanian literature, but also of European literary art.
Arian Leka is the first Albanian author to win this prestigious award.
The “Tudor Arghezi” International Literature Festival was held in the Romanian city of Târgu Jiu on 19-22 May 2022.
In this edition of the Festival, poet Arian Leka presented the book “Dumb map for the drowned”, a book that has been translated into many literary magazines in German, French, Italian, Spanish and several languages of the region”.
The “Tudor Arghezi” Award is the third international award for the poet Arian Leka, who was previously awarded the “Poetic Skepri”, given by the Writers’ Association of North Macedonia and the “Poet of the Poetic Capital of Romania” award 2019.
Meanwhile, the book “Dumb Map for the Drowned” will be published in Greek, Serbian and Macedonian by 2022./p.s./
