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Short Biography

Fahredin Shehu was born in Rahovec, south east Kosova, in 1972. A graduate in Oriental Studies at Prishtina University, in the last thirty years he has worked as an independent scientific researcher in the fields of World Spiritual Heritage and Sacral Aesthetics .His writings have been translated into over 30 langauges, to name a few: Arabic, Bahasa. Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, English, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Polish, Roma, Romanian, Serbian, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish etc He has authored 20 books, including poetry, essays and novels, has published widely as a reviewer, and has edited many books and anthologies, including, for example, World Healing World Peace (Inner Child Press, USA, 2014), an anthology in two volumes. He is Director of the Balkan Literature section of the Kosovo PEN Centre and a founder-member of the South European Literature Association (Sofia, Bulgaria). His distinctions include: the Naaji Naaman Prize for Poetry (Beirut, Lebanon, 2016); a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize (2017); and Doctor Honoris Causa (Universum Academy, Lugano, ). He is also Director of the International ‘Poetry and Wine’ Poetry Festival (Rahovec, Kosovo); and Founder of the Kosovo Fund for Cultural Education and Heritage.