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Luan Arif Starova ((マケドニア語:Луан Ариф Старова); born 1941) is a Albanian writer, scholar, and literary translator of Albanian origin.〔http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4908.htm〕 He has published his works both in Albanian and in Macedonian; he is said to usually first write his texts in Macedonian, and later translate them into Albanian.〔 ==Biography== Luan Starova was born in Pogradec, an Albanian town on Lake Ohrid, in 1941.〔 His family had legal and scholarly background: his grandfather on the father's side had served as an Ottoman judge (qadi) in Prilep, before retiring and emigrating to Turkey; his father earned a law degree in Istanbul, and was a lawyer and a scholar. In 1943, when Luan was a small child, his family fled the Italy-occupied Albania to (also occupied) Macedonia. They first settled in Struga, at the opposite end of Lake Ohrid from Pogradec, and later moved to Skopje.〔 He grew up in Tito's Yugoslavia, and studied French language and literature at Skopje University (1960-1967). After graduation, he worked as a journalist, becoming in 1968 the editor of Albanian programming on Television Skopje.〔 However, in the same year he left for Zagreb to start his postgraduate studies Zagreb University. He earned a master's degree with a thesis on ''The Balkans in the Prose of Guillaume Apollinaire''.〔 When working for his doctoral degree in French and comparative literature〔 (awarded 1978), he spent some time at Sorbonne, collecting materials on the collaboration of Apollinaire and the Albanian scholar and writer Faik Konica.〔 Later, he was to edit a book about these two writers.〔(Review of ): ''Une amitié européenne'', par Luan Starova (direction de l'ouvrage). 1998, ISBN 2910435377〕 Luan Starova worked as a professor of French literature at Skopje University,〔〔 eventually serving as a chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature.〔 Since 1985, Starova also worked on a number of diplomatic posts in various European and Arab countries.〔 After Republic of Macedonia became an independent state, Luan Starova was appointed as his country's first ambassador to France (1994); later he also served as the ambassador to Spain (1996) and Portugal.〔Robert Elsie, Albanian Literature in Translation: (Luan Starova )〕〔〔(Publisher's note to ) ''My Father's Books'' by Luan Starova; translated by Christina E. Kramer.〕 Luan Starova started writing novels in 1971.〔 Several of Luan Starova's novels published since 1992〔 form the so-called "Balkan Saga", where he explores the destinies of the people on both sides of the Albania-Macedonia border under three "Empires" - the Ottoman, the Fascist, and the Stalinist - through the story of his family.〔 Luan Starova is also known as a translator of French literary works (e.g., poetry by André Frénaud (fr)) into both Albanian and Macedonian.〔 Since 1972, Luan Starova participated in the organization of the annual Struga Poetry Evenings.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luan Starova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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