The two young men seek to make a new home in a foreign country while dealing with the personal alienation of their own bodies and its sexuality. It tells the story of two young men who leave their traumatized homeland in the wake of the rule of Enver Hoxha and communism in order to get to Italy. ✼rossing«, 2019) is set against the backdrop of Albanian myth and legend. In 2018, the theatrical adaption premiered at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki.Statovci’s second novel »Tiranan sydän« (2016 Eng. The novel was also translated to English in 2017 under the title »My Cat Yugoslavia« and received the International Dublin Literary Award. The story takes place in the 1980s and deals with the problems of homosexuality and with the situation faced by immigrants in Finnish society. He was still a student when his debut novel »Kissani Jugoslavia« (tr: My Cat Yugoslavia) appeared in 2014, which was awarded the renowned Helsingin-Sanomat Literature Prize for its symbolism and the masterful connection between reality and dream. Statovci studied comparative literature at the University of Helsinki, where he is pursuing his doctorate, as well as dramatic writing at the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture. He was two years old when his family emigrated from Kosovo to Finland to avoid political unrest. Finnish-Kosovar writer Pajtim Statovci was born in 1990.
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