{"id":7664,"date":"2026-02-18T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/frederik-rreshpja-2\/---f463e808-c558-4ab6-9953-0bfaf1605609"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:44:18","slug":"frederik-rreshpja-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/frederik-rreshpja-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederik Rreshpja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederik Rreshpja, lyric poet, essayist, publicist and publisher, passed away in Shkod\u00ebr. His pen is among the most representative of the Albanian verse. He was born in Shkod\u00ebr, in 1940 , in a family originating from Dukagjini. In his hometown, he completed his primary and secondary education at the &#8220;29 N\u00ebntori&#8221; gymnasium. He pursued his university studies at the Faculty of Education in Tirana, by correspondence. In 1967, his first literary work was published, the poetry collection <i>&#8220;Rapsodi shqiptare&#8221; (&#8220;Albanian rhapsodies&#8221;)<\/i>. In 1975, his work was removed from circulation by order of a circular of the Ministry of Education and Culture signed by Deputy Minister Mantho Bala. Arrested and sentenced &#8220;as a person who represents social danger and who aims at undermining, weakening and subverting people\u2019s power&#8221;. Frederik Rreshpja was imprisoned and served 17 years in prison. After he got out of prison, he published the volumes <i>\u201cErdhi ora t\u00eb vdes p\u00ebrs\u00ebri\u201d (&#8220;It&#8217;s time to die again&#8221;)<\/i> (1994), <i>\u201cLirika t\u00eb zgjedhura\u201d (&#8220;Selected Lyrics&#8221;)<\/i> (1996), as well as the volume of poems <i>&#8220;N\u00eb vetmi&#8221; (\u201cAlone\u201d)<\/i> which was published in 2004 and with which he received the title &#8220;Poet of 2004&#8221;. Frederik Rreshpja was also the editor-in-chief of the newspaper &#8220;Ora&#8221;, head of a printing house and owner of the publishing house &#8220;Evropa&#8221;. He is included in the volume &#8220;History of Albanian literature&#8221; by Robert Elsie (2003). He was buried in the catholic cemetery &#8220;Rr\u00ebmaj&#8221; in Shkodra. <i>(In the photo: Frederik Rreshpja)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> National Museum &#8220;House with Leaves&#8221;, Tirana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.teksteshqip.com\/frederik-rreshpja\/biografia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederik Rreshpja, lyric poet, essayist, publicist and publisher, passed away in Shkod\u00ebr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}