What is Dritëro Agolli?
{{Infobox writer |name = Dritëro Agolli |image = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1931|10|13|df=y}} |birth_place = Menkulas, [[Devoll, Korçë|Devoll]], [[Albania]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|02|03|1931|10|13|df=y}} |death_place = [[Tirana]], Albania |occupation = [[Novelist]], [[poet]] |nationality = Albanian |period = 1958–2017 |movement = [[Socialist realism]], [[Postmodern literature]] |notableworks = |awards = |website = }} '''Dritëro Agolli''' (13 October 1931 &ndash; 3 February 2017) was an [[Albanians|Albanian]] poet, writer, and politician. He was the former president of the defunct [[Albanian League of Writers and Artists]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/si/d.agolli.htm |title=Dritëro Agolli {{!}} WHA |access-date=2017-02-06 |archive-date=2019-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230225634/http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/si/d.agolli.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Early life== Agolli was born in [[Devoll, Korçë|Devoll]], [[Albania]]. He studied in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] in the [[Soviet Union]]. ==Career== Agolli wrote primarily [[poetry]], but also short stories, essays, plays, and novels. He was head of the [[Albanian League of Writers and Artists]] from the purge of [[Fadil Paçrami]] and Todi Lubonja at the Fourth Plenary Session of the [[Albanian Party of Labour]] from 1973 until 1992.<ref>{{cite book| last = Segel| first = Harold B.| title = The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VAI7O9prinMC&pg=PA83| year = 2008| publisher = Columbia University Press| isbn = 978-0-231-50804-9| page = 83 }}</ref> ==Death== Agolli died on 3 February 2017 in [[Tirana]], Albania from lung disease, aged 85.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1031336.shtml|title=Albanian writer Dritero Agolli dies at 85|work=Global Times|date=4 February 2017|access-date=4 February 2017|archive-date=9 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209044418/http://www.globaltimes.cn/