“Minister Balluku liked the folk songs of Central Albania, and my father would accompany him with a violin in these family evenings, where a little alcohol was consumed…”/ The rare testimony of the well-known writer
From Fatos Kongoli Memorie.al / Almost fifty years have passed. Even before the literary and artistic fury had subsided, another...
“The ‘Heroes of Vigu’ were killed neither by the people nor by the Kapidan (Chieftain), as is sometimes written in the style of yesterday’s propaganda, because such a murder, for Mirdita, would be…”/ The reflections of the well-known publicist
Memorie.al / The story of the "Heroes of Vigu" do not seem to have ended -The story of the Heroes...
“In Korçë, I started with boxing, then with athletics, but when I went to Tirana, in the enterprises’ championship, with the Automobile Park team, ‘usta’ Zihni Gjinali called me…”/ The rare testimony of the football legend
First Part Memorie.al / Who wouldn't want to return to those years of the last century, to recall the impressive...
“The telegram from the Deputy Chief of Police of Korça, sent to his superior in Paris, Captain Vot, woke up the Albanian delegation…”/ The story of Captain Blloshmi, who saved Korça from the Greek occupation
Memorie.al / Selahudin Blloshmi were the son of the renowned patriot Hajdar Blloshmi (1860-1936). Hajdar had been a French language...
“Gjon Gjinaj executed about 5 communist spies, and Ndue Pjetër Gjomarkaj killed his cousin, Bardhok Biba, a pillar of communism in the mountains of the North…”/ The unknown letters of Koliqi to Karl Gurakuqi
Koliqi: "In the Albanian world, I don't understand why I am known as an intriguer, mean-spirited, and why many people...
“When the flock crossed the border, the party secretary and the unit commissioner appeared to me, who used to speak to us about Greek atrocities, about betrayals and about throat-cutting while sleeping, but they…” / The rare testimony of the former Spaç prisoner
By Shkëlqim ABAZI Part seventeen SPAC ...
“Around the 80s, the world-famous actor Bud Spencer stayed at the ‘Adriatic’ hotel in Durrës and his films…”/ The rare exhibition “Eavesdropped Tourists”, by two girls from Durrës
By Jetmira Delia-Kaci Memorie.al / With a passport in their pocket, every foreign tourist can visit Albania today, but during...
Kadare and the Fine Fabric of Fate
By Giovanni Maddalena* Memorie.al/ My good Albanian - Armenian friend gifted me two books by Ismail Kadare, The Castle and...
“While he was at the Sanatorium, the investigator Thoma Th. called him again, but he realized that they would re-sentence him and he went out onto the sixth floor…” / The tragic death of Ibrahim Tërshana in 1960, after suffering eight years in prison.
Memorie.al / Even though she was over 70, that hot July day in 1960 continued to appear in her memories...