Background
Fatmir Gjata was born in Korçë, Albania in 1922. His father Isuf Gjata was a teacher who joined the National Liberation Movement during World World War II and fell in 1944.
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Fatmir Gjata studied in the French Lyceum of Korçë and later he attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.
Career
He is considered one of the top two Albanian novelists (next to Ismail Kadare). As a communist and a poet, he wrote several poetry volumes during World World War II and later, some of which would become known partisan songs. During the war he was in charge of a local illegal newspaper.
He poetry was embroidered with march-style enthusiasm and solemn lexicology.
He would claim his place in the Albanian literature during 1950-1990 period with his novels, theatrical plays, short story volumes and screenplays, some of which would turn into films such as Tana, the first Albanian movie. Fatmir Gjata is also known for directing some of the most important institutes of art and culture in Communist Albania.
His work has been translated into other languages. He died in Tirana, in 1989.
Membership
He served as Chairman of the Committee for Arts and Culture, member of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists, editor-in-chief for 25 years of Nëntori literary magazine, journalist, and member of the collegial council for other press organs such as Zëri i Popullit, Drita, Ylli, Hosteni, et cetera
