Janka Selimi

Last week, exceptional translator and dear TRADUKI friend Janka Selimi (1935-2026) passed away. Janka Selimi translated from Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian and Croatian. In addition, she taught Russian and Bulgarian at Tirana University and worked for Radio Tirana. With the support of TRADUKI, Selimi translated works by Georgi Gospodinov, Renato Baretić and Ognjen Spahić into Albanian and by Arian Leka into Bulgarian. She was devoted to translation till the very end. For this year’s SINTRAK Festival in October she translated several poems by Georgi Gospodinov into Albanian.

She will be greatly missed by all of us.

Video in Albanian

News report in Bulgarian