Ardian Kycyku – Pen names: Ardian-Christian Kyçyku / Kuciuk, writer in the Albanian and Romanian languages, born on the 23rd of August 1969, Pogradec, Albania. Author of more than 55 original books (novels, short stories, plays, scenarios, scientific studies, essays, anthologies, translations).

Bachelor of Arts at the Tirana University (Albania), Faculty of History and Philology (Albanian Language – Albanian and Universal Literature, 1991, Diploma's work: 'Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud – communions and differences')

Doctor in Comparative and Universal Literature at the Bucharest University – 'Directions in European Modernism and their Echo in the Interwar Period of Albanian Literature' (1998)

University Professor (Semiotics and Stylistics of the Theater / Techniques for writing the scientific texts). Between 2008 and 2020 he was a dean and a rector.

Since 1998 he is the co-founder and co-director of European Review "Haemus", which has an archive of over 9.000 pages.

Founding member of the Albanian Cultural Association "Haemus"


B o o k s written and published in Albanian:

In the empire of stone, novel, Tirana 1993

The Death Family, novel, Pristina1998, Tirana 2020

The Night After Year Zero, novel, Pristina1999

The Muse of the Game, trilogy, Bucharest 1999

The Translation or the Life of a Slave that doesn't Swear He Can See, novel, Bucharest 1999

The Rivers of Sahara, novel, Tirana 2000, Bucharest 2010, Pristina2017

The Appetite for Heaven Bread, novel, Tirana 2000

Diva or Flowers Devourer, novel, Elbasan 2000

Useless Angels, novel, Pristina2002

The Crystal and the hyenas, novel, Pristina2002, Bucharest 2015

Eyes, novel, Bucharest 2004, Pristina2005, Tirana 2008

The conquest of Crazystan, short stories, Pristina2004

Instead of Eternity, play, Pristina2007

Home, novel, Pristina/ Berlin 2014

Kiss Me You, Skeleton, Bucharest 2007

The viceBook, play, Bucharest 2007

The Neutral Blood, play, Bucharest 2008

The Father, novel, Bucharest 2008, Tirana 2017

Your Excellency, play, Pristina2009

One world away, play, Bucharest 2012

Pearl/s, selected short stories, Pogradec 2012

Unseen stories, short stories, Pristina/ Bucharest 2013

Ki$land – a novel with childhood, Tirana 2014

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