Writer Fatos Kongoli has been nominated for the Nobel Prize by the Head of the Academy of Sciences, Skënder Gjinushi.

In 2022, the Head of the Academy of Sciences, Skënder Gjinushi, submitted to the Swedish Academy of Sciences, on behalf of the Chairmanship the nomination for the “Nobel Prize” of acad. Fatos Kongoli, writer with national and international recognition .

Fatos Kongoli is one of the most prominent authors of contemporary Albanian literature, published and appreciated in our country and abroad. He graduated in mathematics, but from the beginning of his career he worked as an editor and literary journalist. And in a very short time he devoted his energies entirely to creative work, first as a distinguished storyteller and throughout the years of his life as a novelist. Kongoli is the author of 16 novels, many of which have been translated and published in several languages (in France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Japan, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia and in Esperanto). Many of his novels have been reprinted.

The work of Fatos Kongoli immediately attracted the attention and emotions of Albanian and foreign readers, because it reflected the drama of the individual in the period of dictatorship and transition. The citizen’s confrontation with the absurdity of life, his internal dramas, penetration into the psyche of oppressed people, the creation of the anti-hero, contrary to the concept of socialist realism, etc., represent the main creative subjects of Kongol. The axis of his entire work is the existential crisis of Albanians in the period of dictatorship and transition, which is still presented as insurmountable.

Along with him, the Head of the Academy of Sciences, Skënder Gjinushi submitted also the nomination of the traditional candidate for more than 30 years, Ismail Kadare, the late Luan Starova and Carmine Abate, a writer of works in contemporary Italian literature.

/k.s/