- Sejfulla Malëshova
Sejfulla Malëshova (b. 1901; d.
June 9 ,1971 inFier ) was anAlbania n politician and writer.Career
Malëshova was a charter member of the
Albanian Communist Party and a member of itsPolitburo . [ cite book | author=Joseph Held | title=Dictionary of East European History since 1945 | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1994 | location=Westport, CT | pages=63-64 | url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=30387388 ] He used to appear as a self-proclaimed rebel poet of theguerilla war against the Italian and German occupying armies in Albania, and became known by his pen name "Lame Kodra". In 1945, he was appointedMinister of culture and propaganda. In the same year, he was elected president of the newly foundedLeague of Albanian Writers , which consisted of seventy-four members initially, with several non-communist intellectuals among them.Malëshova had emerged as a moderate communist, often inviting publications without regard to their ideological content, which brought him the wrath of
Enver Hoxha , particularly after an appeal by the Writers League toHarry Truman andClement Attlee for Western recognition ofAlbania . In 1946, Hoxha accused Malëshova of "rightist deviation" and expelled him from the communist party. Following his dismissal, a persecution against the writers ensued, many of whom had been harassed and imprisoned by the authorities.Malëshova spent the rest of his life as a warehouseman in
Fier , shunned by almost all fellow citizens. He died an outcast in 1971. [ cite journal | author=Robert Elsie | title=Albanische Literatur und Kultur nach sechsundvierzig Jahren Sozialismus. Ein Zustandsbericht. | journal=Südosteuropa - Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsforschung | volume=48 | issue=11-12 | year=1991 | pages=600-613 | language=German | url=http://www.elsie.de/pdf/articles/A1991AlbanischeLit.pdf ]References
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