Late poet honoured with statue

TIRANA, Aug. 7 – Late Albanian Renaissance poet Ndre Mjeda has been honoured with a statue in his home village of Kukel, in the northern district of Albania. The statue placed in front of Mjeda’s reconstructed house and parish where he served was unveiled last week on the poet’s 75th birth anniversary as part of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Albania’s independence.
Researchers from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and the US participated in the ceremony, hailing Mjeda’s contribution to poetry, Albania’s independence, and Catholicism in a scientific conference. Classical poet Ndre Mjeda (1866-1937) bridges the gap between late nineteenth-century Renaissance culture and the dynamic literary creativity of the independence period.