About the translators

The translation by Kristaq Traja has been obtained from the author who works currently in the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg. Kristaq Traja introduces himself : "I was born on August 18, 1955 in Albania and my profession is lawyer. Literature and especially poetry is my hobby. I have translated also from Russian Ahmatova's, Brodsky's, Nabokov's, Lermontov's, Tjutcev's etc. poetry. While navigating through internet I found your very interesting site to gather all possible translations of the 66 sonnet and having not seen the Albanian version I thought it would be good to have such a one, considering first of all its specificity as a rare language. The original is taken from the "Shakespeare's Sonnets" edited by Stanley Wells."