On December 10, 1979, Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was declared a Nobel laureate in Oslo, Norway, thus becoming the first Albanian to win the most prestigious award in the world.

At the time of receiving the Nobel Prize in 1979, one of the clergymen in the hall asked Mother Teresa where she was from. She stated: “I was born in Skopje, I was educated in London, I live in Calcutta and I work for all the poor people in the world. “My homeland is a small country called Albania.”
That day the whole world learned that St. Teresa was Albanian. She has had difficulty speaking Albanian fluently after 70 years away and living in non-Albanian settings, but she has never denied her Albanian origin.

Her writings in Albanian are the letters of youth and then with her family in Albanian, greetings in Albanian to the Albanian people after winning the Nobel Prize in 1979.

/Klara Ruci/