
My Cat Yugoslavia
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A mother’s life in Kosovo and her son’s life in Finland connect exclusion, desire and fantastic encounters.
Original title: Kissani Jugoslavia
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Statovci was born in Kosovo, grew up in Finland and writes in Finnish. He appears here as a diasporic voice shared with Finnish literature, not as an Albanian-language author. Alongside his novels, read Flora Brovina and Ali Podrimja’s poetry to hear Kosovar voices beyond the emigrant novel. Bajraj’s monodrama brings war and exile onto the stage. Bolla connects love in Pristina with its wartime rupture; its Polish translation is titled Niewidzialni.
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A mother’s life in Kosovo and her son’s life in Finland connect exclusion, desire and fantastic encounters.
Original title: Kissani Jugoslavia

Two young Albanians leave their country, turning migration into a search for a new identity.
Original title: Tiranan sydän

Two students’ forbidden love in Pristina is interrupted by war and its long aftermath.
A bilingual selection by a Kosovar poet evokes women’s experience, dignity and historical violence.
Original title: Poezi — wybór dwujęzyczny
Selected poetry connects personal grief and loss with the symbolic language of an endangered community.
Original title: Poezi — wybór angielski
Centre for Albanian Studies
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An exile’s monodrama works through wartime trauma and the disintegration of identity.
Original title: Slaying the Mosquito (tytuł wydania angielskiego)
A bilingual selection of the Kosovan author’s poetry, pairing English translations with the Albanian originals.
A novel of inner conflict: hope, dreams, fear and rebellion. A mountain summit becomes an image of the elusive goal.
Original title: Alpinisti
Sources on authors and their connections to this country. Specific edition details appear beside each book. Polish and English originals are not labelled as translations.