BIOGRAPHY
Mirela Leka Xhava (Albanian – French)
She was born in the city of Elbasan, Albania. She was passionate about literature since childhood, being published from time to time in various magazines and newspapers. She graduated in Albanian Language and Literature at "Aleksander Xhuvani" Elbasan University. Until 2002, before immigrating to France, she worked as a librarian at the city's University Library, where she was also a member of the League of Writers of Elbasan. Her poems have been published in prestigious magazines and newspapers in Albania, Kosovo, England, Canada, USA, Belgium, Bangladesh, India, Tunisia, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Dominican Republic, Holland as well as in France, on French online literary sites, etc. . She is active in literary salons and fairs in France, as well as contemporary literature, where she won the "Diplôme d'Honneur at the 24th Printemps des Poètes -Sartrouville France".
She has been published periodically in the literary magazine Poètes Sans Frontières "Florilège" - Dijon, in the Canadian Anthology of Literary Poetry in defense of children "Ethics and Global Education", the International Anthology of Poets for Peace - Tunisia, in the Anthology "Paris Window" volume 2/3 Poetry, in the Anthology "Confessions" India, in the Anthology of Atunis Galaxy Poetry 2023/24/25 Belgium and was a finalist of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival-Rome 2022 and participates in literary competitions.
Finalist in the international poetry competition Mili Dueli Bosnia-Herzegovina 2024.
Elle est membre de la Société des Poètes Français depuis mars 2024.
Literary works:
« I don't want winter in my eyes » (poems) 1999
"Les fleurs de la rue Montesquieu" (Flowers of Montesquieu street) - Publishing house "ADA" Tirana 2022 in (Albanian-French).
She is working on the last book of the poetry series.
Currently lives with his family in Bordeaux, France.