Betim Muço

Betim Muço is a writer and scientist. He was born in January 1947 in Tirana, capital city of Albania. He studied physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of University of Tirana from which he graduated in 1970. After graduation he worked for four years as math and physics teacher in Kruja region, north of Tirana. In 1974 he moved back in the capital working as a researcher in the Seismological Institute of Academy of Sciences. In 1993 to 1997 he has been Director of Institute and until 2001 when he left the country, he has been the Head of Seismological Network of Albania. He is Professor and a well-known specialist of earth sciences in the country and collaborated or directed many international science projects of the field. His first poems were published since the high school time and his first book with poetry ‘On the roads of fatherland’ was published in 1967. During more 30 years literary activity, Betim Muço has published more than 25 books with poems, short stories, novels and essays. He has won several literary awards, in Albania and abroad. Many of his poems and short stories have appeared in translation in anthologies and journals and magazines of different countries. He also translated and published in Albanian, some works of Green, Bellow, Mishima, Rilke, Joyce, Nabokov, Munro, and a lot of poets.Since 2001, he lives and works in the United States.