Naum Prifti is a wellknown Albanian writer and translator. He was born in Rehovo, Kolonje, where he completed primary school. In 1953, he graduated the Medical Polytechnic in Tirana. He works for a year as an assistant doctor at the Korça Sanatorium. Passionate about literature, he continues his studies in Albanian Language and Literature at the State University of Tirana. During the years 1954-1960, he serves as an editor in the magazine Hosteni. While from 1960-67 as an editor in the magazine “Ylli”. He then worked as a teacher from 1967-70 in Divjakë, Lushnje.

In 1970-72, he works as an editor for the newsletter “Children’s Stage”, at the Central House of Popular Creativity, Tirana and as a theater inspector at the Ministry of Education and Culture during 1974-76. In these years, he also serves as an external lecturer for Albanian Literature at the University of Tirana. In 1991, he emigrates to America (New York), where gives his help to the Albanian community there and to Albanian Literature. In 1995, he is elected secretary of the Vatra Pan-Albanian Federation. With the creation of the Association of Albanian-American Writers, they elect him as its president. He has won many awards for literary works such as volumes of stories, novels, children’s literature, humor and film scripts.

In 2001, he is honored by the Ministry of Culture and the League of Writers with the award: “Silver Feather”, for the volume with the legend “Mother of the Sun”. The “Golden Feather” award for the volume of humorous stories and sketches “Neither Miço, Nor Muço” from the Albanian-American Writers’ Association, New York, 2003. For his long, continuous literary and artistic work, he has been decorated from the People’s Assembly with the Labor Medal and the “2nd Class Naim Frashëri Order”.

His literary creativity is diverse and spans several genres: stories, dramas, comedies, novels, film scripts, pieces for puppet theater, scripts for cartoons, biographies, critical articles, journalism, etc. There are almost 100 literary works, more than years of life and twice half a century of creativity. Thousands and thousands of pages written by hand, typed with a simple typewriter, and thrown into the computer of our day, hundreds and hundreds of analyses, discussions, correspondence, conversations, which you can safely call journalism, for the idea and the message they carry and convey.

He has won many awards for literary works such as volumes of stories, novels, children’s literature, humor and film scripts.

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