Sterjo Spasse is a notable Albania

Albania

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n writer of Macedonian

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 descent.

Life

Born in 1914 in Gollomboç

Gollomboç

Gollomboç is a village in the Mala Prespa, Albania, Municipality Pustec , Korçë District.- History :The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev Gollomboç is a village in the Mala Prespa, Albania, Municipality Pustec (Liqenas), Korçë District.- History :The "La...

, Liqenas Municipality, Korçë District

Korçë District

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, Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

, Spasse pursued the elementary school in Korçë

Korçë

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, and later, the Shkolla Normale e Elbasanit. He worked as a teacher in Derviçan, in the Dropull

Dropull

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 region, and then went to the University of Florence

University of Florence

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, Italy

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 to study Pedagogy. He also pursued a master in literature in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. After World War II he worked as a literary critic and writer in the pedagogic magazines The new school ' onMouseout='HidePop("49465")' href="/topics/Albanian_League_of_Writers_and_Artists">Albanian League of Writers and Artists

Albanian League of Writers and Artists

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. Spasse died in Tirana

Tirana

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, Albania in 1989.

Along his various contributions in the pedagogic field and translations, his main fieldwork was creative writing, which started in the 1930s. He published four collections of short stories and 10 novels:

Spasse's novel Pse? is considered to be perhaps one of the greatest Albanian novels of the early 20th century.

Short stories

• "Kuror rinie" (1934),
• "Në krahët e një femre" (1934),
• "Nusja pa duvak" (1944)
• "Të fala nga fshati" (1958)

Novels

• "Pse ?" (1935),
• "Afërdita" (1944),
• "Ata nuk ishin vetëm" (1952),
• "Afërdita përsëri në fshat" (1954),
• "Buzë liqenit" (1965),
• "Zjarre..." (1972),
• "Zgjimi" (1973),
• "Pishtarë" (1975),
• "Ja vdekje ja liri" (1978),
• "Kryengritësit" (1983).