Various press clippings and publicity about my writing and art from the last few years.

I was born on April 29th, 1959, in Albania, the youngest of a large, cheerful and very loving family. I grew up in the small town of Blinisht which was surrounded by tall towering mountains and the fields everywhere were covered in flowers and many varieties of birds hovered over-head. An equal variety of small animals lived out their short lives in the fields and woods. Very rarely an aeroplane circled in the limited space of the sky, a solitary visitor from the distant modern world. Glorying in the magnificent sunsets from this patch of untouched country. I made so bold as to send notes by way of the sun to the far distant civilised? or was it? country out there. At night, when the sky was giddy with stars, I stepped along the moon beams to another on the moon beams to another civilisation on the moon's disc. A few words taken from my surroundings and from a handful of books unlocked my ardent imagaination: clouds and fields and stars, the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, eagles, Leonardo, poor blind Homer, Christ and the Virgin. I dreamt of them all until punctually the crazed roosters woke me up. And so in this garden of Eden I spent my childhood and from which all my later fantasies were to spring. At fourteen I left my Eden and entered the twisted paths of the world of art: to be exact, I went to the Migh School of Art in Tirana and after that continued at the Academy of Fine Art from 1981 to 1985. By a stroke of great good fortune, I then found myself in the only studio of cartoons in Tirana. My delight in the fabulous, where everything is possible, undoubtedly originated in my childhood fantasies and dreams. The moon shed its gentle beams and could climb up and up, toy with stars and win a prize the rhird prize at the 1990 National Festival at Tirana. I then voyaged in the wonders of the cinema and took part in the International film Festival of cartoons in Annessy, France, which took place in June, 1991. Yes, I actually rubbed shoulders with the great Bak and the equally great Busseto...

CURRICULUM VITAE

XHOVALIN DELIA

Director & Painter Xhovalin Delia was born on April 29^th, 1959, in Puke, Albania.

1978 Received A-level degree from Arts Lyceum.

1985 Received degree in Painting from Fine Arts Academy of Tirana.

Upon completion of these studies I undertook employment in an animation studio, "AFA Film Animation," as both director and painter.

1987 Produced five animation films using a variety of techniques.

1990  At the National Film Festival, I won a National Prize for my animation films.

1991 Festival
International du cinema d'Animation at Annecy, France, with the film "Who deserves this"

1991 National Exhibition "The Spring" at the National Gallery of Tirana.

1992 Exhibition at the National Gallery of Tirana.

1994, 1995, 1996 Exhibition at Galleria DEA in Florence.

1997 International exhibition "Occhi sul mondo," organized by the City of Florence.

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 International exhibitions, by Galleria DEA and the City of Florence.

2002 Exhibition at the International Cultural Center of Tirana (postmodern theme)

2003 Exhibition at the International Cultural Center of Tirana (Performance)

2003 International exhibition (video) at the Palagio di Parte Guelfa, in the Sala di Brunelleschi, Florence.

2004 International postmodern exhibition on Tirana (performance, "Porta del paradiso").

2004 Short film "The Passport"

2005 Short film "Aeroplanino"

2005 Performance to the Fine Arts Academy of Tirana including a promotion of my new book VENERE (a 280-page novel).

2006 short film "La bambola"

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