Gentian Cocoli

Gentian Cocoli has published three collections of poetry, most recently Human Soil. He has translated several contemporary American poets and won a prize for his translation of Seamus Heaney. His Circumference of Ash was selected a Best Poetry Book of the Year in 2001 by the Ministry of Culture. Cocoli is founder of the literary journal Aleph Review and of the publishing house Aleph Publishing. He heads the culture and art department in Albania’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.