QEZAR KURTI

2350 Cambreleng Avenue, Apartment A-12

Bronx, NY 10458

Home Telephone: (718) 563- 8387

 Mail to:ocezarkurti@yahoo.com

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,  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)

EDITOR-TRANSLATOR                                    ATA, 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, Cittą Nuova Editrice, Italia, 1996.

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

William Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shkup, 1993.

Guy de Maupassant's Novels, Tiranė, 1990.

Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Tiranė, 1985

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

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

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

Varlam Shallamov's Novels of Colyma, Tirane, 1995

Fjodor Dostoyevski 's The Records From the House of the Dead, I p. Tirane, 1993

Fjodor Dostoyevski 's The Records From the House of the Dead, New York, 2004

William Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, New York, 2004

NOT PUBLISHED YET

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

Anton Cehov’s  Stepa

EDITED WORKS

Tolstoy's War and Peace in Albanian (1979)

AUTHORED AND COAUTHORED WORKS

Bashkėbisedues 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), Tiranė, 1991

EDUCATION

State University of Tirana,  Law, 1964.                          

State University of Tirana,  Russian Language and literature, 1957.

 

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