Famous Albanians

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Lee Constantine Elia
-Baseball Player-



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Lee Constantine Elia (1937– ), baseball player, coach, and manager, managed the Chicago Cubs (1982–1983) and the Philadelphia Phillies (1987–1988 ).

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Valon Behrami

-Switzerland football player-



Behrami, who helped Switzerland reach the World Cup with a goal in a play : off match against Turkey, said he had rejected an apology from the centre:left Social Democratic Party after they issued an electronic mail shot pointing out that he had nearly failed to find refuge in the country.

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Valon Behrami (born 19 April 1985 in Mitrovicë, Kosovë) is a Swiss midfielder currently playing professional football for S.S. Lazio of Italian Serie A.

Of Kosovo-Albanian origin, Behrami moved to Stabio, a village in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, due to war when he was only a child, and he then obtained the Swiss nationality.

Behrami started playing football in Swiss sides FC Stabio, FC Chiasso and FC Lugano. After a number of impressive appearances with FC Lugano, Behrami was jointly signed by Italian teams Genoa and Udinese, and played the Serie B championship with Genoa in 2003. In 2004, Udinese sold its rights on Behrami to Hellas Verona, and therefore Behrami moved to the gialloblu side, again in Serie B. After an impressive season played with Hellas Verona, Lazio signed him in the summer of 2005. He is used to wear the #85 jersey, as he does for Lazio. He has made € 6 000 000 so far in his professional career.

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Blerim Dzemaili

-Switzerland football player-



He is of Albanian origin from Macedonia.
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Blerim Džemaili (born 12 April 1986 in Macedonia) is a Swiss football midfielder of Albanian origin who currently, as of May 2006, plays for FC Zürich.

He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup.


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Blerim Dzemaili, d’origine Albanais de Macédoine, a connu sa 1ère sélection en équipe de Suisse le 1er mars 2006 contre l’Ecosse (3-1). Il joue depuis 5 ans au club suisse de FC Zürich. Agé de 20 ans, il compte déjÃ* 4 sélections et figurent plutôt parmi les remplaçants (62 min. de jeu) de l’équipe Suisse comme Milieu de terrain. Il porte le numéro 15 au mondial Allemagne 2006.

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Nick Tosches
-Famous US Writer = half Albanian, Half Italian-



Nick Tosches, d'origine italo-albanaise, a d'abord travaillé pour une marque de sous-vêtements, puis comme chasseur de serpents avant de renoncer Ã* toute activité salariée pour se lancer dans l'écriture. Ses premiers textes furent publiés dans les magazines rock et abordent les racines des musiques populaires américaines (country, rock'n'roll) par une érudition maniaque mais désacralisante et un constant humour Ã* froid. Des caractéristiques que l'on retrouve dans les quinze très beaux poèmes "post-beat" déclamés ici d'une voix Ã* la fois précise et flegmatique par l'écrivain lui-même, lors d'une performance Ã* Beaubourg en mars 2001 en compagnie d'une violoniste, d'un guitariste, d'un percussionniste et - le temps d'un morceau - de la chanteuse-poétesse Patti Smith.

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www.exitwounds.com/Tosches.htm


Later on, I purchased his novel Trinities, which takes place in the fascinating but unsavory world of the Mafia – with which Tosches is very familiar, both from having grown up in Newark, New Jersey, in an Italian/Albanian family, and for having written a now hard-to-find and comprehensive biography of the Sicilian mobster Michele Sindona. I did not read this very good novel until after I had finished reading The Nick Tosches Reader, which is a mighty fine sampler of Tosches’ writing (fiction, non-fiction, book and record reviews, and articles published in numerous magazines, from Vanity Fair, to Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, to name only three) -- if you want to get a good grasp of what Nick Tosches is all abo...

walisabeth.blogspot.com/2005/07/on-nick-tosches.html

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Saimir Strati

-Artist/Guiness Book recordman-



Saimir Strati speaks in front of the portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci, which he created with industrial nails, at the International Centre of Culture in Tirana, September 4, 2006. REUTERS/Arben Celi

World's largest nail mosaic hammered out

By Benet Koleka

TIRANA (Reuters) - Albanian artist Saimir Strati has hammered tens of thousands of nails into a wooden board over the past 24 days to create a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the world's biggest nail mosaic.

"I can officially confirm that we have a new record for the largest nail mosaic of eight square metres," Guinness World Records adjudicator Scott Christie said late on Monday.

The mosaic stood in the main hall of Tirana's pyramid-shaped culture centre, exactly where a larger-than-life sculpture of the late Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha used to stand.

Large-headed nails shone in the light falling on the sides of Da Vinci's flowing grey beard. Smaller black tapestry nails created shadow below his eyes and chin. Three rows of yellow nails framed the portrait.

"I have lost count of the nails, but I think it was around 400 kilos (880 pounds) of nails. I have used different nails. The condition was they should be industrial nails and they are," Strati said.

"My technique resembles (digital) camera pixels. I have used a nail for each pixel," he told Reuters.

A video record of the feat showed him nailing away for up to 12 hours a day.

"This is something quite unique and quite spectacular," Christie told Reuters, adding the mosaic is "a completely new category" for Guinness.

"We did not know quite what to expect before we came, but we are amazed and truly astounded at the fantastic work he has done, days and nights and hour upon hour," he added.

"Someone will have to try to beat that, but I do not think it will be beaten for some time."

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Gedeon Burkhard
-German Actor (Kommissar Rex)-

He is the great-grandson of Aleksander Moisiu



Great-grandson of famous Albanian actor Alexander Moissi.

(...)Did several TV commercials (including a TV commercial for Japan)

October 2000 his contract he signed for the role as Brandtner in Kommissar Rex ended.

He was sent to bording-school in England by his parents when he was 8.

Became father of a daughter, 13 July 2004, her name is Gioia Filomena

He lived in the USA for three years, from 1995 to 1998.

His 1996 marriage lasted only four months.

Great-grandson of famous Albanian actor Alexander Moissi...

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Marie Logoreci
-Actress-



* The Russian Affair (1947) - Jessie
* Tartuffe (1947) - Elmire
* Deep Roots (1949) - Alisa Lengton
* The Plot of the Condemned (1950) - Christina Padera
* Halili and Hajria (1950) - Fatima
* Six Lovers (1952) - Alyona Patrovna
* Our Land (1954) - Loke
* Intrigue and Love (1957) - Lady Milford
* Seven Knights (1958 ) - Triga
* Hamlet (1960) - Gertrude
* The House of Bernarda Alba (1961) - Bernarda Alba
* The Moral of Madame Dulska (1962) - Tadrahova
* The Great Wall (1966) - Mother Jun
* The Perkolgjinajs (1966) - Mara
* Drita (1967) - Manushaqja - Directed by Marie Logoreci
* The Lass of the Mountains (1967) - Prenda
* Everybody's Roof (1968 ) - The old woman
* The Big Drown (1977) - Gjela

Marie Logoreci (born September 23, 1920 in Shkoder, Albania). She is an actress of Albanian films and drama. She has appeared in several films such as Skanderbeg, Fëmijet e Saj, Toka Jonë. Marie is also well known for her acting on television, such as her recurring appearances on Gjenerali i Ushtrise se Vdekur. She was the most famous on her dramas with her acting.

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Alex Buzo
-Famous Australian playright-





Alex Buzo (23 July 1944 - 16 August 2006) was an Australian playwright and author who wrote 88 works. [1]

Buzo was born in Sydney in 1944 to an Albanian-born father and an Australian mother. He attended The Armidale School in Armidale and The International School in Geneva before graduating from the University of New South Wales.


About his Dad, Zinhi

I mentioned in my writer's post that Zihni, Alex's dad, had come to Armidale for the building of the Oakey Hydro Scheme. As an aside, I spelt Zinhi's name wrongly, failing to add the h. But then, I have always said the name, rarely spelt it!

Zihni Buzo OAM was an Albanian. He used to tell me now he had been in the Boy Scouts with Enver Hoxha who later become communist dictator. Apparently Hoxha was a nasty piece of work even then.

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One of Australia's best known playwrights, Alex Buzo, died on Wednesday August 16, aged 62.

The 62-year-old died at his home in Sydney after a long battle with cancer.

Alex Buzo leaves behind a large body of work, including plays, such as Norman and Ahmed and Rooted, and novels including Tautology, I don't want to sound incredulous but I can't believe it, and A Dictionary Of The Almost Obvious.

Many of his works taught in high schools and universities. Alex Buzo leaves behind a wife and three daughters.


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Tefta Tashko Koço
-Egyptian Soprano-




Soprano Tefta Tashko Koço (1910-1947) was born in Fayoum, Egypt, where her parents had emigrated from the end of the 19th century. In 1921 the family moved to Korçë, and in 1927 Tefta left for Montpellier to learn singing. Between 1932 and 1936 she studied at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation in Paris. When she returned to Albania permanently in 1936, apart from her programmes of operatic and chamber music, she also dedicated a great deal of effort to concentrating on learning and performing the Albanian urban lyric songs. She recorded twice for Columbia in Italy, in 1937 and 1942, a selection of the classical vocal repertoire and 45 Albanian urban lyric songs. Tefta was esteemed by national and foreign critics as “a lyric soprano of an excellent training, with a clear and healthy tone, with a cristaline intonation, brilliant vocal technique, discreet gestures and delightful phrasingâ€� (Gllas, Beograd, 14 November 1945). Nearly five years before her death, Tefta and her husband, Kristo, had a son named Eno.

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Doruntina Disha
- Kosovo Albanian singer living in Norway -




Sources, in Norwegian:

www.dreamfactory.no/content/artister/doruntina/index.html

no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doruntina_Disha

www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=287319


In Albanian

sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doruntina_Disha