Ukë Z BuçpapajUkë Zenel Buçpapaj is an Albanian writer who has published books ofpoetry and prose at home and abroad. His translation work has appearedin Denver Quarterly (USA, 1994); Seneca Review (USA, 1995); ModernPoetry in Translation (UK, 1996); Visions Interational (USA, 1996 and1997); The Year Book of American Poetry (USA, 1997); Grand Street(USA, 998); Fence (USA, 1999) etc. He had also translated severalgreat poets into Albanian. Among them, worth mentioning, are: WaltWhitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Thomas Stearns Eliot, EzraPound, William Butler Yeats, Ana Ahmatova, Arthur Rimbaud, OctavioPaz, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Larkin, John Ashbery, Mark Strand, Rita Dove, Lucille Clifton, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Gerald Stern, Carolos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Robert Lowell, YehudaAmichai, Ronny Someck, and Naim Araidi. He holds the following titles: 'International Visitor' ( USA, 1992); 'Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing'(University of Iowa, USA, 1992) and 'Fulbright Scholar' (Universityof Iowa, USA, 1992). A Professor Doctor, he is currently teaching Comparative Literature, Literary Translation, Contrastive Linguistics and Study Skills at theUniversity. Read More Read Less