Little voices
Luljeta Lleshanaku remembers how growing up in a small town in Albania shaped her understanding of nature
Albania
Albania – PEN Transmissions
Finding the sworn virgin
Elvira Dones takes PEN Atlas to the mountains of Albania, where the story of an ancient custom, ideas about gender, and the resilient women who subverted both, helped the author to find a connection back to her homeland
History and hysteria: The private libraries of dictators
In this week’s PEN Atlas piece from Gazmend Kapllani, we hear about the books that were damned and banned during the communist regime in Albania, only to resurface in some unlikely places…