Llazar Sotir Gusho, is a 20th century Albanian

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 poet and writer known by the pseudonym Lasgush Poradeci.

Biography

After Poradeci finished elementary school at Pogradec in 1908, he studied at a language school in Bitola Monastir, Macedonia. At the beginning of WWI he returned to Pogradec, after which his father sent him to study at the Lycée Léonin

Lycee Leonin

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in Athens

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. At the end of 1921 he enrolled at the Şcoala Naţională de Arte Frumoase

Bucharest National University of Arts

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, Bucharest

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, where he took paid work to subsidize his studies, and in 1922 joined Bucharest's association for the Albanian diaspora

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, the Albanian colony; later being elected its secretary. In the summer of 1924 the Romanian government awarded him a scholarship to attend the Faculty of Romano-German Philology of the University of Graz

University of Graz

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 in Austria; he finished a doctorate there in 1933. He returned to Albania the following year to teach art at a secondary school in Tirana, this until 1944 when he became unemployed. In 1947 he briefly taught at Tirana's Institute of Science

University of Tirana

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, then translated for the Naim Frashëri state-owned publishing house, retiring in 1974. Poradeci died in poverty in 1987.

Works

In 1933, Poradeci published the collection of verse, "Vallja e yjve" (the dance of the stars), and in 1937, "Ylli i zemrës" (The star of the heart). During the same period he contributed verses to the Albanian weekly newspaper Shqipëri' e re (New Albania). Other Poradeci works include "The theological excursion of Socrates", "About to", "Kamadeva", "Ballads of Muharrem" and "Reshit Collaku".

Poradeci's complete works were published in 1989.