Fatos Lubonja

Fatos Lubonja is an Albanian writer, journalist, editor, human rights activist and former political prisoner. He is known for his memoirs and essays on communist repression, the experience of imprisonment under Enver Hoxha's regime, Albania's post-communist transition, democracy, nationalism and public memory. After serving about seventeen years as a political prisoner, Lubonja became active in Albania's human-rights movement and founded the cultural and intellectual journal Përpjekja in 1994.