Anthology of wounds - Arct

LUAN MYFTIUAnthology of WoundsHe was born in Berat on2.02.1933. When still a little boy,he lost his father and mother, becomingan orphan at an early age.His father was a supporter of theNational Front (Balli Kombëtar, anationalist organization that foughtthe Communists) and a respectedpatriot. He was arrested and sentencedto death in 1945, but thenhis life was saved. After a few years he died in the Burrelprison. While his mother could not come out alive from thepsychiatric hospital when they put her without mercy.Although the life of Luan Myftiu would continue, sufferingsand sadness followed him during all of his life.He finished the Pedagogic High School of Berat andworked as a teacher, but in 1975 he was arrested.“What have I done,” he asked the investigator.“You are the stabbed meat we keep in the refrigerator,when we need you, we take you and condemn to let theothers that sing songs, see you,” was the answer of theinvestigator. He was condemned to a prison term of tenyears for agitation and propaganda and was taken in SpacprisonAfter 1990 he came in Tirana and participated actively inthe democratic movement. He has also written many satiricpoems, aphorisms, and many other stories.They are published in political essay titled “In the communistterritory” and two books with fables. He has trans-80