“Within a Sorrow” is a collection of seventy previously unpublished poetries written during the lockdown. It has verses dedicated to love, to my sensations and emotions in the difficult months of my father’s illness, until the very last day of his life, to my grief for his loss, to my fragility during that particular period, and to my efforts to stay positive and find the sun in the midst of the fog. There is pain, delusion, and gray skies but also the desire to find happiness and tranquility in nature, in a trip to find the light after the temporal storm
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Irma Kurti is an Albanian poetess, writer, lyricist, journalist, and translator naturalized Italian. She has been writing since she was a child. In 1980, she was honored with the first national prize on the 35th anniversary of the Pionieri magazine for her poem “To my homeland”. In 1989, she won the second prize in the National Competition organized by Radio Tirana on the 45th anniversary of the Liberation of Albania.
All her books are dedicated to the memory of her beloved parents Hasan Kurti and Sherife Mezini, who supported and encouraged every step of her literary path.
Kurti has won numerous literary prizes and awards in Italy and Italian Switzerland. She was awarded the “Universum Donna” International Prize IX Edition 2013 for Literature and the lifetime nomination of “Ambassador of Peace” by the University of Peace of Italian Switzerland. In 2020, she received the title of Honorary President of WikiPoesia, the Encyclopedia of Poetry.
In 2021, she was awarded..
