Lazër Radi, lawyer, publicist, poet and translator, passed away in Tirana. He was born in Prizren (Kosovo), in 1916. After the Serbian persecution, he lived in Albania, where he attended high school in Shkodër, thanks to a scholarship. His first publications were published in the newspapers “Kombi” (“Nation”), “Drita” (“Light”) and “Diana”. They usually bore his name or nicknames like “LR”, “Lara”, “Lapredi” or “Ladi”. After the 1940s, he published the book “Fashizmi dhe fryma shqiptare“ (“Fascism and the Albanian spirit”). In 1942, he received the title of “Doctor of Law”. On November 23, 1944, he was arrested by the partisans. He was tried together with other intellectuals in the so-called “Special Trial” where he was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment. He served his sentence for about 10 years and after his release from prison, he began the ordeal of internment in various camps, such as Kuç, Shtyllas, Radostinë, etc. For a long period of time he worked as a farmer, mason, carpenter, etc. In 1982 he was labeled as “bourgeois intellectual and enemy of the people”. After the fall of the dictatorship, he published various articles in the first free newspapers of the country and translated. (In the photo: Lazar Radi)
Text: National Museum “House with leaves”, Tirana
Graphic processing: AHCF
