QEZAR KURTI

2350 Cambreleng Avenue, Apartment A-12

Bronx, NY 10458

Home Telephone: (718) 563- 8387

Email: [email protected]

FREELANCE TRANSLATOR

From English, Russian, Italian, French

Into Albanian, English, Russian

More than 30 years of translation experience, during which a number of works of English, Italian, Russian and French literature were translated into Albanian. A vast experience in translation of scientific, social and political literature, including Reuters, France-Press, UPI, TASS, ANSA.

GENERAL BACKGROUND:

PUBLISHER, EDITOR Kurti Publishing (1996-2000)

WRITER, TRANSLATOR, EDITOR Illyria - Albanian-American Newspaper. Bronx, New York (1999-1999)

TEACHER Berlitz Languages Inc. (1997)

WRITER and TRANSLATOR Illyria - Albanian-American Newspaper, Bronx, New York (1992-1995)

TRANSLATOR Collegio Internationale dei Traduttori Letterari, Procida, Na, Italy (1992)

FREELANCE TRANS LATOR Tirana, Albania (1976-1991)

PROFESSOR, CHAIRMAN

OF RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC University of Tirana, Albania (1962-1976)

ALBANIAN TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY Tirana, Albania (1957-1962)

 

TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED

Voltaire's Zadig or the Destiny , New York, 1997.

Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, New York, 1997

Dante Alighieri's The Inferno, New York 1996.

Chiara Lubich's Meditazioni, Città Nuova Editrice, Italia, 1996.

Dostoyevsky's The Records From the House of the Dead, p. I , Tiranë, 1994.

William Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shkup, 1993.

Guy de Maupassant's Novels, Tiranë, 1990.

Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Tiranë, 1985

Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars, Tiranë, 1985

John Gallsworthy's The Salvation of Forsyte, Tirane, 1973.

Thor Heyerdahl's Travel on Kon- Ticky, Tirane, 1968, et cetera.

TRANSLATIONS NOT PUBLISHED YET

William Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra,

Paolo Emilio Taviani's La meravigliosa aventura di Cristophoro Colombo,

Varlam Shallamov's Novels of Colyma

Fjodor Dostoyevski 's The Records From the House of the Dead, II p.

EDITED WORKS

Tolstoy's War and Peace in Albanian (1979)

AUTHORED AND COAUTHORED WORKS

Bashkëbisedues Shqip-Anglisht (Albanian-American Conversation Handbook), Kurti Publishing, New-York, 1998

Learn Albanian, A course of Albanian language for English speaking people, LEGAS, New York, 1996

English-Albanian Polytechnic Vocabulary, (coauthor), Tiranë, 1991

EDUCATION

State University of Tirana, Major; Law, 1964.

Pedagogical Institute of Tirana, Major; Russian Language and literature, 1957.

 

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