Anthology of wounds - Arct

MARTIN CAMAJAnthology of WoundsHe was born in Dukagjin in1925 and studied in the JesuitCollege of Shkodra. Poet PanoTaci, a political prisoner, has writtenthat Martin Camaj has participatedin the Postriba insurgencyand was imprisoned in Yugoslavia.When he gained freedom, heescaped from Yugoslavia, movingto Italy, where he studied andgraduated.He started his academic career in Germany, where hewas appointed as a professor in the Albanian departmentof Munich University.During the time in political exile, he published poems,novels and stories, and was one of the most famous authorsof the Diaspora and a well-known authority in Albanianliterature. He died in 1992 in Munich.We have chosen for this anthology a part from hismetaphoric Kafka-like prose titled “Dranja” where theauthor writes about the anxiety and sufferings that a personfeels when far of the country.250