Dhimitër Shuteriqi


Dhimitër Shuteriqi was an Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer. He participated in the anti-fascist National [Liberation Movement (Albania)|National Liberation Movement]. After the war, he was a member of the People's Assembly and one of the founders and later president of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists. In addition to a series of books and novels, he has published numerous volumes of textbooks, especially those on the history of Albanian literature for high schools.

Life

Dhimitër S. Shuteriqi was born in Elbasan in a patriotic and intellectual family. His father was Simon Shuteriqi, participant in the Literary Congress of Monastir and Congress of Elbasan, as well as one of the founders of the Shkolla Normale e Elbasanit.
Shuteriqi attended the secondary school in Korça. He studied at the University of Grenoble and Lyon 2|Lyon] in France and taught school in Elbasan in 1942–1943. Shuteriqi began writing in the 1930s and was to become an influential literary historian during the People's [Socialist Republic of Albania|socialist period]. He was a member of parliament for many years, president of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists from 1950 to 1973, and a member of the Academy of Sciences from 1973. As chairman of the ALWA, he participated in the Albanian Congress of Orthography of 1972 and was one of the signatories. Shuteriqi is remembered for his research in literature, history, and folklore, in particular for his standard histories and anthologies of Albanian literature. Among his works are Shkrimet shqipe në vitet 1332–1850, Tirana 1976, Autorë dhe tekste, Tirana 1977, and Historia e letërsisë shqiptare, Tirana 1983.
Shuteriqi was also author of prose and poetry. His first poetry was named Kosova and was published in the Kosova newspaper of Albanian community of Constanța, Romania, in 1933. He was inspired by Romanticism until 1943 when he switched to Realism, and later Socialist Realism.
His two-volume Çlirimtarët, Tirana 1952 and 1955, the first post-World War II Albanian novel, painted a picture of the squalor and sufferings of the peasants before the "liberation", and also of the rise of class consciousness among them. It helped set the rather sluggish pace of socialist realism in the 1950s.

Personal life and death

In 1940, Shuteriqi met writer Mynever Fisco and they married in Elbasan. They had three children, two daughters and a son. As two writers and intellectuals, they understood each other well in the path they had taken to continue life even though they were 9 years apart.
Shuteriqi was the grandfather of Albanian politician and author Ben Blushi.
He died in Tirana, on 22 July 2003, at the age of 87.

Works

  • Këngët e rinisë së parë , Tirana, 1935
  • Historia e letërsisë shqipe në tre vëllime , Tirana, 1959, OCLC 504188502
  • Metrika shqipe për shkollat e mesme dhe të nalta , Pristina, 1968, OCLC 504188538
  • The lute and the rifle, Tirana, 1965, OCLC 29799716
  • Mbi krahn' e praruar të paqës. Poem dhe vjersha të tjera , Tirana, 1950, OCLC 504188548
  • Récits, Tirana, 1969, OCLC 25242468
  • Antologjia e letërsisë shqipe për shkollat e mesme , Tirana, 1955, OCLC 792785485, Pristina, 1970, OCLC 42419307
  • Shkrimet shqipe në vitet 1332–1850 , Tirana, 1976, OCLC 4167459
  • Mësuesit dhe Atit: Poezi dhe prozë shqipe kushtuar emrit të J.V.Stalinit , Tirana, 1953, OCLC 468906251
  • Vepra , as editor, author: Andon Zako, Tirana, 1957, OCLC 557917931
  • Sytë e Simonidës : pluhurat e shenjtëruar , Tirana, 1998, OCLC 41002334
  • Tekstet shqipe dhe shkrimi i shqipes në vitet 879–1800 , Tirana, 2005,
  • Këngë në minierë : tregime dhe përshkrime , Tirana, 1968, OCLC 23925590
  • Naim Frashëri, jeta dhe vepra , Tirana, 1982, OCLC 23767244
  • Aranitët , Tirana, 2011,
  • Marin Beçikemi dhe shkrime të tjera , Tirana, 1987, OCLC 28931320
  • Le Chant et le fusil. , Tirana, 1963, OCLC 32411583
  • Maratonomaku ynë : tregime , Tirana, 1977, OCLC 18981763
  • Çlirimtarët , Tirana, 1952, 1955
  • Ura në Tepelenë , Pristina, 1979, OCLC 17274535
  • Autorë dhe tekste , Tirana, 1977, OCLC 15286239
  • Deshmi parabuzukjane të fjalës shqipe , Tirana, 2010,
  • Këngë , Tirana, 1961, OCLC 36250360
  • Petro Korçari, kryearkitekt i Ali Pashë Tepelenës , Tirana, 1978, OCLC 18107084
  • Shpati i Sipërm: gjurmime rreth kulturës popullore ,, Tirana, 1987, OCLC 18588537
  • Gjurmime letrare , Tirana, 1974, OCLC 54162415
  • Vërshimet e vjeshtës , Tirana, 1984, OCLC 18225289
  • Nga kënga e popullit , Tirana, 1991, OCLC 40498914
  • Buka dhe thika: tregime të zgjedhura , Tirana, 2002,
  • Si atë ditën e parë: poezi , Tirana, 1984, OCLC 18224377
  • Rruga e Rinise , Tirana, 1953, OCLC 43138928
  • Nëpër shekujt letrarë : studime , Tirana, 1973, OCLC 24372993
  • Moti i madh: përmbledhje shënimesh e dokumentesh për historinë shqiptare të viteve 1379–1479 , Tirana, 2006,
  • Poezia shqipe: nga origjinat e gjer më sot , Tirana, 1965, OCLC 43143845
  • Një mal me këngë , Tirana, 1975, OCLC 5733202
  • Kënga dhe pushka: tregime , Tirana, 1963, OCLC 28785438
  • Te qafa e botës: tregime , Tirana, 1986, OCLC 17769145
  • Gurnecka: tregime , Tirana, 1957, OCLC 660244021
  • Fyelli i Marsiasit, dhe tregime të tjera , Tirana, 1953, OCLC 80732707
  • Kur rendte hëna nëpër re: tregime , Tirana, 1982, OCLC 157033085
  • Pesë tregime , Tirana, 1953, OCLC 252881071
  • Historia e letërsisë shqiptare: që nga fillimet deri te Lufta Antifashiste Nacionalçlirimtare , Tirana, 1983, OCLC 14167733
  • 60 tregime ne nje , Tirana, 1979, OCLC 832605712
  • Mbi Barletin dhe shkrime të tjera , Tirana, 1979, OCLC 63333127
  • Andon Zako-Çajupi – biography, Tirana, 1950, OCLC 52763695