A winner of the Albanian National Silver Pen Prize in 2000 and the International Kristal Vilenica Prize in 2009, Luljeta Lleshanaku is the author of six books of poetry in Albanian and six poetry collections in other languages: Antipastoral, 2006, Italy; Kinder der natur, 2010, Austria; Dzieci natury, 2011, Poland. Haywire: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), a finalist for the “2013 Popescu Prize” by Poetry Society, UK, which includes work from  Fresco: Selected Poems (2002), and Child of Nature (2010).  Lleshanaku was nominated for the European poetry prize “The European Poet of Freedom, 2012”, in Poland.

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