Sadri Ahmeti (3 March 1939 24 June 2010) was an Albanian

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and poet from

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, Plavë,

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Career

He was born in the village of

. In 1957 he emigrated to Albania. He worked as an agronomist in

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and

Krujë Krujë ( sq-definite, Kruja; see also the etymology section) is a town and a municipality in north-central Albania. Located between Mount Krujë and the Ishëm River, the city is 20 km north of the capital of Albania, Tirana. Krujë was ...

. As a modern painter and a

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ist, he created his portraits of ladies named Muses or Albanian virgin beauties and also landscapes of his wondering fantasies and memories from the past in the technique of watercolor.

Death

Ahmeti died, age 71, in

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Painting exhibitions

Ahmeti participated in several international collective exhibitions and opened personal ones in Belgium, Germany,

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, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. In Albania, he had sixteen solo exhibitions and participated in three collective exhibitions.

Awards

In 1994, the

National Art Gallery of Albania National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

in Tirana presented Ahmeti the

Onufri Onufri (; ; ), Onouphrios of Neokastro or Onouphrios Argytes, was a 16th century Archpriest of Elbasan and the most important painter of Orthodox murals and icons in the early post-Byzantine era in Albania. He founded a school of painting in B ...

award.

Poetic publishings

* 1991 "The sun to

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does not shine through Goliotok" * 1993 "A laugh storms in the darkness" * 1993 "The iceberg of the

Catastrophe Catastrophe or catastrophic comes from the Greek κατά (''kata'') = down; στροφή (''strophē'') = turning (). It may refer to the following: A general or specific event * Disaster, a devastating event * The Asia Minor Catastrophe, a Greek ...

's Prelude" * 1996 "The massacre of Tivar" * 1999 "33 years in

Crucifix A crucifix (from the Latin meaning '(one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the (Latin for 'body'). The cru ...

" * 2000 "The dance of

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" * 2000 "The wind plays with the leaves of my Fall" * 2000 "Will we meet tomorrow?" *2001 "Ridding around the world on a cloud" *2001 "While bathing in the silver of the Moon"

References

External links

* , his official website * *
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