Gjergj Fishta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gjergj Fishta

Albanian writer

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1871

Place of Birth: Fishtë, Albania

Date of Death: 30-Dec-1940

Profession: writer, poet, politician, diplomat, translator, journalist

Nationality: Albania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gjergj Fishta (pronounced [???? 'fi?ta]; 23 October 1871 – 30 December 1940) was an Albanian franciscan friar, poet, educator, politician, rilindas, translator and writer.
He is regarded as the national poet of Albania and one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century for his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís and the editor of two of the most autoritative magazines after Albania's independence, Posta e Shypniës (1916–1917) and founder of Hylli i Dritës (1913-).Notably being the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir, which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet.
He was part of the Albanian delegation to the Versailles Conference, 1919.
In 1921 he was a member and became the deputy chairman of the Albanian parliament, later on in the '20s and the '30s he was among the most influential cultural and literary figures in Albania.
After the communist regime came to power, his literary oeuvre has been taken out of circulation, and it stayed so until the fall of communism.