Background
She was born in Elbasan and studied at the Armed Forces Academy.
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Iliriana Sulkuqi
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Career
After completing her education, she served as an officer in the Academy and as a journalist for the military press until 1995, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. She later worked for Drita, a newspaper published by the Albanian Writers Union. Sulkuqi moved to New York City in 2004.
She manages the publication of the literary magazine Pelegrin (Pilgrim).
She began to write while still young. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and been translated into English, Italian, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian and Macedonian.
She helped initiate and contributed to an anthology of writing by Albanian exiles entitled Perëndim i malluar (Waiting for the sunset). She is one of a number of Albanian poets who have written haiku in Albanian.
