Dritero Agolli – The Writer of Tradition who Enriched the Albanian Vocabulary

Abstract

Dritero Agolli was an Albanian writer who is mostly remembered in October due to his birthday. He was born on October 13^th of 1931 and passed away on February 3^rd of 2017 in Tirana. The critics have named Agolli as a poet of the land. The month of October was traditionally tagged as the “Month of Literature”.  We say it traditionally since this month is already considered as a festive period when all readers and writers are brought together by the ART OF THE WORD. Scholars and academicians celebrate this month. They pay honor to all ones who contributed to the history of Albanian literature: Padre Gjergj Fishta, born on October 23^rd of 1871 and described as Albanian Homer; Migjeni, born on October 13^th of 1911 whom famous Ismail Kadare considered as the hurricane of the Albanian literature. Through the work of the pen, producing a perfect, rich, accurate and pure language – with the words and terminologies deriving from random people – Dritero Agolli earned a destination in the pantheon of Albanian culture. We say often that a writer or another was a product of the setting and social-historical and cultural circumstances where they were born and grew up. But, could we say the same statement for writer Dritero Agolli? Certainly, yes! All his work was based on the Albanian tradition and on the magnificent Albanian word. The writer paid attention that all his products were enriched by a vocabulary that derives from the treasure of Albanian ethnic folklore.