Minush Jero, writer and playwright, was born in Selenica, Vlora. He completed his higher studies for language and literature at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Philology. For a long time he was an officer in the Armed Forces. After military education at the United School, he became an officer in Durrës. He left the army in 1960 and entered the University of Tirana, where he became a professor of literature and dramaturgy. He wrote in several genres of literature, but he became especially known as a playwright, with the plays: “Brown spots”, “Wedding in war”, “The invincibles”, “The bridge”, “The story of a night” etc. Among his first plays is “War Wedding” (1942), which stands out for its fierce conflict set in the period of World War II. In 1971, he wrote the heroic drama “The Invincibles”, which also takes its subject from the Second World War. He wrote the drama “Brown spots” in 1969, with which the “Andon Zako Çajupi” theater of Korça won the festival flag for professionals. The fate of this drama had a strange history: it was praised a lot on the first night by the prime minister of the time, Mehmet Shehu, and on the second night, it was anathema by the leader Enver Hoxha, calling it a “black spot” in Albanian dramaturgy. The drama was blocked, and 1973 Minush Jero was sentenced to 8 years in prison. After serving 6 years and 8 months in prison, he was released on December 28th, 1978. He then worked as a simple worker in a rubber factory in Durrës, from 1979 to 1987. After the democratic movement began in the 1990s, he founded the branch of the Democratic Party in Durrës and then opens the “Torra” art salon. He passed away in 2006. (In the photo: Minush Jero)
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