The National Center for Books and Reading announced the nomination of Fatos Lubonja’s novel Ridënimi for the 2025 Angelus Literary Award. This award honors outstanding literature from Central Europe.

The novel appears on the shortlist of 14 books competing for this prestigious prize. Ridënimi has been translated into Polish under the title Drugi wyrok.

The translation received support from the National Center’s annual “Literary Translation Fund from Albanian to Foreign Languages.” This fund aims to promote Albanian literature internationally.

Polish translator Dorota Horodyska rendered the text, and the publishing house Pogranicze issued the Polish edition. The book belongs to the memoir genre and holds significant value as a work of memory literature.

The Angelus Award is recognized as the leading prize for prose translated into Polish. The final shortlist of seven nominees will be announced in September 2025.

This nomination highlights the growing international recognition of Albanian literature and emphasizes the importance of translation in cultural exchange.

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