Parid Teferiçi

Parid Teferiçi is an Albanian author and curator. From 1999–2001, he served as head archivist at the library of the Don Calabria Institute in Rome, and in 2001 became curator of the visual arts section of the Cini Cultural Institute in Ferrara. He has exhibited his painting in Italy. In 2005, he returned to Albania to take part in the parliamentary elections as a candidate for the Republican Party in his native Kavaja.
Teferiçi has published two slender volumes of poetry: Bërë me largësi, Tirana 1996, and Meqenëse sytë, Tirana 2003. His discriminating works have proven him to be among Albania's major contemporary poets.