Ornela Vorpsi

1968 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Albania

languages spoken, written or signed: Albanian, French, Italian

educated at: Brera Academy, Paris 8 University, University of Arts (Albania)

occupation: photographer, writer, painter

official website: www.ornelavorpsi.org

Ornela Vorpsi (born 3 August 1968, Tirana), is an Albanian writer and photographer from the Vorpsi family in Tirana. Ornela studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, and has been living and working in Paris since 1997. In 2012 she was named one of the 35 best writers of Europe in Best European Fiction by Aleksander Hemon and Zadie Smith. Source: Wikipedia (en)