Anilda Ibrahimi

Lidia Radi (University of Richmond)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 30 Apr 1972
Activity 2008-ongoing

Places

Born in Albania
Active in Italy

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Prose writer

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Anilda Ibrahimi is an award-winning writer and a prominent voice in Italian transnational literature. Born in Vlorë (a port city in Southern Albania) in 1972, Ibrahimi left her country of origin for Switzerland in 1994, and she permanently moved to Rome, Italy, in 1997. She has published four books in Italian and a fifth one is forthcoming in 2021. Her first work,

Rosso come una sposa

[

Red as a Bride

, 2008], has won many awards:

Edoardo Khilgren - Città di Milano

Corrado Alvaro

Città di Penne

Giuseppe Antonio Arena

and

La Magna Capitana

. Her second novel,

L’amore e gli stracci del tempo

[

Love and the Rags of Time

, 2009, with two successive editions in 2011 and 2015], received the award

Paralup

from the Fondazione Nuto Revelli, which optioned its cinematographic rights. In 2012 she…

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Citation: Radi, Lidia. "Anilda Ibrahimi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 April 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14624, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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