Today, Thursday, October 11, 2018, the well-known Albanian writer, Fatos Aarapi, passed away at the age of 89.
The writer's family has made the announcement of his death.Arapi was born in 1929 in Vlora, where he also attended the high school, while he studied in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Faculty of Mathematics and Economics.
He has worked for many years as a journalist and lecturer at the Faculty of History and Philology of Tirana. He has won several times national and international awards relating to poetry.
Fatos Arapi's work is rich in various kinds of genres. In addition to poetry, he has written novel drama and has translated well-known works of world literature.