Mimoza Ahmeti
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Mimoza Ahmeti (born June 12, 1963, in Kruja) is an Albanian poet and the winner of the first Festival of Poetry in Sanremo in 1988, organized by RAI. She has been described by Robert Elsie as an "enfant terrible." Mimoza is a postdoctoral lecturer in psychotherapy. She graduated with a PhD degree from SFU Vienna with honors and completed her postdoctoral studies at SFU Paris. {{cite book|last=Elsie|first=Robert|title=Historical Dictionary of Albania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6inIiCF_930C&pg=PA4|access-date=5 March 2016|year=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-6188-6|pages=4–}}{{Cite web|title=Mimoza Ahmeti — internationales literaturfestival berlin|url=https://www.literaturfestival.com/autoren-en/autoren-2010-en/mimoza-ahmeti|access-date=2020-12-03|website=www.literaturfestival.com}}
Works
After two volumes of verse in the late eighties, it was the 53 poems in the collection Delirium which caught the public's attention. Then the poetry collection The Pollination of Flowers. Ahmeti has published widely and her books have been translated into Italian, French and English. Although best known for her poems, she has also written short stories and made three expositions of her paintings. She has also two albums of her songs. Ahmeti ran a program Transculture, in Albanian RTSH-tv from 2019 to 2022. She speaks English and French. List of her published works include:
- Ça va Albanie?
- L'absurde coordinatif
- Milchkuss Roman
- The tutor Roman
- The stories of civilization Stories & drawings
- The book of happinies Poems
- Pjalmini i luleve : poezi
- Meaning, Significance: Science
- Womanizing Science
- Contigency Science {{Cite web|title=Worldcat|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-264274191/}}{{Cite web|title=Mimoza AHMETI|url=http://www.albanianliterature.net/authors/modern/ahmeti-m/index.html|access-date=2020-12-03|website=www.albanianliterature.net}}
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Category:20th-century Albanian poets