Ag Apolloni visiting scholar

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ag_apolloni@fas.harvard.edu

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Ag Apolloni

Visiting Scholar

Professor of Literature, University of Pristina

Albanian Novelist, Playwright, Poet, and Essayist

Ag Apolloni (Kosovo, 1982) is Professor of Literature at the University of Pristina, where he has taught since 2008. He studied Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Arts and Literature at the Faculty of Philology, earning his Ph.D. in Literature in 2012. He served as editor-in-chief of the literary and academic journals Jeta e Re (2010–2012) and Symbol (2013–2023), where he conducted interviews with distinguished figures in world literature, criticism, and culture.

His literary work spans novels, plays, poetry, essays, and non-fiction, and has been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Czech, Romanian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Montenegrin. Among his notable works are The Howl of the Wolf, Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame, Little Red Riding Hood: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups, and The Prague Lessons: Ten Lectures on World Literature.

Apolloni is the recipient of several national and international awards for fiction, drama, criticism, and poetry. He has also held literary residencies in Austria, Hungary, Romania, and other countries.

He has delivered invited lectures at Charles University in Prague and currently serves as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University (2025–2026). His research and writing explore world literature, literary criticism, intertextuality, mythology, folklore, and the relationship between literature and film.

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