Ben Blushi

Ben Blushi
Member of the Albanian parliament
Assumed office
2001
Personal details
Born (1969-01-01) 1 January 1969
Tirana, Albania
Political party Socialist Party of Albania (2009-2016)
LIBRA (2016- )
Alma mater University of Tirana

Ben Blushi (born 1 January 1969 in Tirana) is an Albanian politician, writer and journalist.

Biography

Ben Blushi studied at the University of Tirana, graduating in Albanian language and literature. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Koha Jonë. His works deal with Albanian history and contemporary Albania. In April 2008, Ben Blushi published his first novel Të jetosh në ishull (Living on an Island). Within a couple of months, the book had sold over 30,000 copies, a record for the Albanian market. The novel covers Albanian history under the Ottoman Empire (15th–18th centuries), with a broad and not uncontroversial treatment of the country’s Islamization.[1][2] His second novel, Othello, The Moor of Vlora won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014. His following novels The Candidate and The Prime Minister were the best selling books at the Tirana Book Fair in 2015 and 2016 respectively. [3] [4] Blushi is an atheist.[5]

Political Career

In 1999 embarked upon a political career in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fatos Nano. For several months he served as deputy minister of foreign affairs, and in late 2000 he became Prefect of Korça.

Blushi is currently a Member of Parliament of the LIBRA Party. He has former been a MP for the Socialist Party. He created LIBRA on October 2016.[6]

Novels

Essays

Awards and honours

References


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