Ornela Vorpsi

Ornela Vorpsi, born in Tirana in 1968, left her home country at the age of 22, lived in Milan for six years and finally moved to Paris in 1997. The prose author, fine artist, photographer and video artist studied at the colleges of art in Tirana, Milan and Paris. She has participated in exhibitions of contemporary art, most recently "The Balkans crossroad the future" (2004, Bologna), "Blood & Honey" (2003, Vienna) and "Politique d'intérieur" (2002, Paris). In 2001, she published "Nothing obvious", a volume of her photographic works (Scalo Verlag, Zurich). This was followed by two books, written in Italian but first published in France "Le pays où l'on ne meurt jamais" (The country where one never dies, Actes Sud, 2004, translated into more

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