Agron Tufa was born on April 1, 1967. He is a poet, writer, essayist, translator and literature scholar. After studying literature at University of Tirana, he finished his graduate studies at Gorky Institute, Moscow. He postgraduated in Arts Philosophy and Translation Theory at The Institute of European Cultures in Moscow, Russia. Tufa is actually Executive Director of the Institute for Studies of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, as well professor of Foreign Literature of the XX-th Century and Translation Theory at University of Tirana. During more than 20 years of creativity, he has published poetry collections: At Scaean Gates (1996), Atlantis environments (2002), Vanguard of Angels (2005), Spirit upon waters (2007), Footprints along the stream (2010); novels: The duel (1998), Fabula Rasa (2005), Black Wednesday (2005), The pot (2009); essays: Janus of hundred faces, Mnemosyne’s howl (2011) and has translated the most outstanding Russian and other poets and writers, such as Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky, Olga Sedakova, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Platonov, Danil Harms, Lotman, Vladimir Propp, Tolstoy, etc., He is awarded with many national and international prizes, among which The Silver Quill Award for his best novel Fabula Rasa. In 2009 he won The Albanian National Book Award. His poems are translated into English, French, German, Italian, Slovene, Spanish, Macedonian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, etc.