Maria Antonia Braile

{{Short description|Albanian arbëreshë writer}}

Maria Antonia Braile (born San Demetrio Corone, Calabria) was an Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian.

She was born in San Demetrio Corone in Calabria.{{citation| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygcDAAAAMAAJ&q=Maria+Antonia+Braile| author=Maximilian Lambertz| title=Lehrgang des Albanischen: Grammatik der albanischen Sprache| page=17|publisher=Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften|year=1959|oclc=310695315| location=Berlin|quote= Maria Antonia Braile aus S. Demetrio Corone (Cosenza)}} Braile published in 1917 in Calabria, Italy, a collection of poems in Arbëresh language, entitled Canti.{{cite news|last1=Jorgaqi|first1=Nasho|title=Nasho Jorgaqi: Zërat e parë femërorë të letërsisë shqipe|url=http://shqiptarja.com/m/kulture/zerat-e-pare-femerore-te-letersise-shqipe-277400.html|access-date=14 November 2015|publisher=Shqiptarja|date=8 March 2015}}

Braile is part of the Albanian world of poetry. Her poetry is simple and melancholic.{{cite book|author=Giuseppe Gradilone|title=La letteratura albanese e il mondo classico: 4 studi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxcRAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Bulzoni|page=215}} She will be remembered as the first Albanian woman poet.{{cite news|last1=Kodra|first1=Klara|title=Poetesha e parë arbëreshe dhe shqiptare : Maria Antonia Braile|url=http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=2&%250=200149009&LIMIT=0|access-date=14 November 2015|publisher=Diana|date=March 2003|page=4}}