• 25.02.2022.
• Zagreb, HR

Luan Starova died

Yesterday (February 24, 2022) we were surprised and shocked by the news that a great friend of TIM Press, academician Luan Starova, a Macedonian writer, diplomat and translator, died at the age of 81 in Skopje. Starova was born on August 14, 1941 in Pogradec, Albania. In 1943, he moved with his family to Macedonia, where he lived briefly in Struga and Tetovo, and since 1945 he lived in Skopje. He studied in Macedonian language, graduated in French and literature and art history at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, and received his master's and doctoral degrees in literary romance from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, and then at the Sorbonne. He worked as a journalist and editor of the Albanian program at Radio Television Skopje, and since the mid-1970s he has worked as a professor at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. He was the ambassador of the SFRY (Tunisia, Palestine), and then the Macedonian ambassador (France, Spain, Portugal, UNESCO). He was a member and vice-president of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, an honorary member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Mediterranean Academy in Naples and the European Academy of Sciences in Salzburg. He wrote in Macedonian, Albanian and French, and his books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. Out of about twenty books by Luan Starova, TIM press has published in Croatian the novels Ervehe – A book about a mother, The General's Love, Time of the Goats – The Return of the Goats and Borders. Working on the publication of these books in Croatian language, we at TIM press also got to know the author Luan, a man of great life experience, a gentle and tolerant humanist with strong feelings for others and those different. We are proud of the fact that among our authors is a man about whom Edgar Morin once wrote that in his books "Luan Starova speaks not only as an Albanian refugee, emigrant, former Yugoslav, Macedonian citizen, but also testifies as a Balkan, Mediterranean and European“.