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Robert Elsie

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Born: June 28 1950

Died: 0101 10 20172017

Elsie was a writer, translator, interpreter and specialist in Albanian studies. He studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1972 with a diploma in Classical Studies and Linguistics. In the following years, he continued his post-graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and at the University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland, and at the University of Bonn, where he finished his doctorate on Linguistics and Celtic Studies in 1978 at the Linguistics Institute.

From 1978 on, Elsie visited Albania several times with a group of students and professors from the University of Bonn. For several years, he also attended the International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, held in Prishtina, Kosovo. From 1982 to 1987, he worked for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn, and from 2002 to 2013 for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, in particular as an interpreter for several noted cases including the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

As a translator Robert Elsie offers the reader “a selection of songs from the best known cycle of Albanian epic verse”.

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Books from Robert Elsie

The Country Where No One Ever Dies

The Highland Lute

Albanian Folktales and Legends

Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood: Modern Albanian Short Stories

Edward Lear in Albania: Journals of a Landscape Painter in the Balkans

Travels in the Balkans: The Memoirs of Baron Franz Nopcsa

Albania in a Nutshell: A Brief History and Chronology of Events (Albanian Studies Book 7)

Songs of the Frontier Warriors / Kenge Kreshnikesh: Albanian Epic Verse in a Bilingual English-Albanian Edition

Historical Dictionary of Albania

Escape to Albania: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl from Hamburg (Albanian Studies Book 24)

Lightning from the Depths: An Anthology of Albanian Poetry

Who Will Slay the Wolf: Poetry from Kosovo

The Struggle for Scutari

Behind Stone Walls: Changing Household Organisation Among the Albanians of Kosovo (Albanian Studies Book 10)

Kosovo, A Documentary History: From the Balkan Wars to World War II

The London Conference and the Albanian Question (1912-1914): The Dispatches of Sir Edward Grey (Albanian Studies Book 27)

Blood of the Quill

The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower

The Blaze in the Balkans: Selected Writings 1903 - 1941

Chronologie eines albanischen Vierteljahrhunderts (1990-2015), Band I: Band I (1990-2001): Vom Systemwechsel zum Krieg um Kosovo (Albanian Studies 31)