Gjergi Fishta

…authors of the time were Gjergj Fishta, Faik Konitza (Konica), and Fan S. Noli. Fishta—a native of Shkodër, the literary centre of northern Albania—was a powerful satirist but is best known for his long ballad Lahuta e malcís (1937; The Highland Lute), which celebrates the valour and virtues of Albanian…