Ornela Vorpsi Explained

Ornela Vorpsi
Birth Date:	3 August 1968
Birth Place:	Tirana, Albania
Nationality:	Albanian
Occupation:	Writer, photographer
Family:	Vorpsi family
Alma Mater:	Academy of Fine Arts of Brera
Signature:	Ornela Vorpsi (nënshkrim).svg

Ornela Vorpsi (born 3 August 1968, Tirana), is an Albanian writer and photographer from the Vorpsi family in Tirana.^{[1] [2] [3]} Ornela studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan,^[4] and has been living and working in Paris since 1997.^[5] An excerpt of her novel The Country Where One Never Dies was included in Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksander Hemon and prefaced by Zadie Smith.^[6]

Novels

• 2001 – Nothing Obvious^{[7] [8]}
• 2003 – The Country Where One Never Dies^{[9] [10] [4]}
• 2006 – Pink Glass
• 2007 – The hand that does not bite
• 2010 – Drink Cocoa van Houten!^[8]
• 2012 – Fuorimondo^[11]
• 2015 – Travel Around the Mother

Notes and References

1. Book: AlĂš . G. . Pedri . N. . Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature . University of Toronto Press . Toronto Italian Studies . 2015 . 978-1-4426-4807-4 . 2016-04-28.
2. Web site: Vorpsi prend corps.. Libération.fr. 2016-04-13.
3. News: Ornela Vorpsi : éclats de mémoire d'une exilée. SAVIGNEAU. JOSYANE. Le Monde.fr. fr. 1950-6244. 2016-04-13.
4. Web site: Ornela Vorpsi: me, Albania and the 'whoring of the human race'. Cafebabel. 28 April 2016.
5. Web site: Ornela Vorpsi: "Nuk dua të kthehem më kurrë në Shqipëri". GazetaExpress. gazetaexpress.com. 28 April 2016.
6. Web site: Best European Fiction 2010. 2024-04-22.
7. Book: Vorpsi, Ornela . Nothing obvious . Scalo Distributed in North America by D.A.P . Zurich New York New York City . 2001 . 3-908247-32-2 .
8. Web site: Kosovo 2.0 – Ornela Vorpsi: Creativity is her home. kosovotwopointzero.com. 28 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160603122918/http://www.kosovotwopointzero.com/en/article/758/ornela-vorpsi-creativity-is-her-home. 3 June 2016. dead.
9. Web site: Ornela Vorpsi's "The Country Where No One Ever Dies". Jeff Waxman. Words Without Borders. 28 April 2016.
10. Book: Vorpsi, Ornela . The country where no one ever dies . Dalkey Archive Press . Champaign Ill . 2009 . 978-1-56478-568-8 .
11. Book: Vorpsi, Ornela . Fuorimondo : storia di una ragazza di oggi . Einaudi . Torino . 2012 . 978-88-06-21015-1 . it .