Fahredin

He is a poet, writer and essayist from Rahovec, Kosovo. For the last thirty years he has been an independent scientific researcher of Oriental Studies, Spiritual Heritage and Sacred Aesthetics. He is passionate about calligraphy and painting. He participated in several festivals and conferences, among others, ( International Poetry Festival Voix de la Mediterranée , Lodeve France, 2011; Struga Poetry Events – 50th anniversary, Struga, Macedonia, 2011; Nisan Poetry Festival in Maghar, Galileo, Nazareth, Israel, 2012; PEN Macedonia 50 th anniversary and Regional C ooperation , Skopje, Macedonia 2013; Malta Literary Festival and Workshop , Valletta, Malta 2013; Maelstrom Poetry Festival , Brussels, Belgium 2016; Sapanca Literary Festival , Turkey 2016; 10 th Anniversary- Ottobre in Poesia , Sardegna, Italy 2016; 10th Anniversary- Sandzaki Knjizevni Susreti – Serbia 2016; Vilenica – Slovenia 2017).

His poetry has been translated into more than 30 languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Swedish, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Romanian, Chinese/Mandarin, Bahasa , Bengali, Maltese, Frisian, Sicilian, etc.), and included in various anthologies and international literary magazines, (e.g. The World Poets Yearbook 2009 , Beijing, China; Poetas del Mundo , Santiago de Chile; Blue Max Magazine , Dublin , Ireland; Tribune de Gen eve , Geneva, Switzerland; CHECK POINT POETRY; Le Reti di Dedalus , Italy; Anthology Alchemy of the Terra, Alchemy of Salt , Ann Arbor Review, Michigan, USA; Coldnoon Literary Magazine; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; World Healing World Peace Anthology , New York, USA; Poetry in Anthology for the Rights of Hazara People , Oslo, Norway). He has published 20 books, of poetry, novels, essays and also anthologies, (e.g. Ormus for the Soul (USA, 2021), When The Night Arrives (Serbia, 2020), Prayer's Rug: Selected Poems (Kosovo, 2019), Palankin: Selected Poems (Macedonia, 2019), Elixir: Selected Poems (Italy, 2017), Balkans and Islam (United Kingdom, 2012), Mulberries – novel (Macedonia, 2012), Nektarina – novel (Kosovo, 2004), to name a few . He has been honored as Poet Laureate of Gold Medal for Poetry as Bridge to Nations , Philippines, 2014. He is also the winner of the Naji Naaman Literary Prize for Poetry , Lebanon, 2016; the Veilero Prize for Poetry , Italy, 2017; the IMZA Turkish Literary Magazine Award , from the Yunus Emre Institute , Kosovo; the Agim Ramadani Prize , Stubëll, 2014.

He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, USA, 2017 and was recently awarded the United Nations Asian Federation of Arts and Literary Circles Prize, The Six , Asian International Chamber of Commerce, China, 2020. He is director and organizer of the International Poetry Festival “Poetry and Wine ”, in Kosovo and founder of the Fund for Education and Cultural Heritage www.fekt.org .
He is director of the Balkan Literature sector, Kosovo PEN Center and founder and member of the Southern European Literature Association in Sofia, Bulgaria. He served as an active member of the Editorial and Publications Committee of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Kosovo (2012-2015). He is a member of the World Writers Association and the World Poetry Movement .
He received the Presidential and Academic Medal and the honorary title Doctor Honoris Causa from Universum Academy Lugano, Switzerland. (Photo credits to Rromir Imami, Skopje, Macedonia, 2018.