Known Albanian writer, poet and scholar Agron Tufa has been honored for the best poetry by the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature. On January 26, the ceremony of awarding literary prizes was held in Paris in 2017.
Alongside other award-winning awards, bearing the names of the world's great poets, was also the Albanian poet Agron Tufa, praised for the best poetry with the prize bearing the name of Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko. One of the most important prizes that highlights the values of true literature, regardless of the author's name, nationality or language in which he has written for the first time.
In this contest, Tufa appeared with a cluster of 20 poems translated into French by Ardian Marashi and Edmond Tupja. Poems, which attracted the attention of the jury, who nominated him for the literary prizes for poetry 2017, which the Academy gives each year and then announces it and one of the winners.
Agron Tufa is one of the best contemporary Albanian poets. Tufa has always managed to bring verses as fresh as well as with depth of thought. Currently he is an internal lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences at Bedër University College.