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Ben Blushi

Ben Blushi
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1st Chairman of LIBRA
Minister of Education and Science
In office
6 September 2001 – 29 January 2002
Preceded by Et’hem Ruka
Succeeded by Luan Memushi
Minister of Local Government and Decentralization
In office
29 December 2003 – 1 September 2005
Preceded by post created
Succeeded by post abolished
Member of the Albanian parliament
Assumed office
2001
Personal details
Born (1969-01-01) 1 January 1969 (age 48)
Tirana, Albania
Political party Socialist Party (1998-2016)
LIBRA (2016-current)
Alma mater University of Tirana

Ben Blushi (born 1 January 1969) is an Albanian politician, writer and journalist.

Ben Blushi, born in Tirana, studied at the University of Tirana, graduating in Albanian language and literature. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Koha Jonë. His works deal with Albanian history and contemporary Albania. In April 2008, Ben Blushi published his first novel Të jetosh në ishull (Living on an Island). Within a couple of months, the book had sold over 30,000 copies, a record for the Albanian market. The novel covers Albanian history under the Ottoman Empire (15th–18th centuries), with a broad and not uncontroversial treatment of the country’s Islamization. His second novel, Othello, The Moor of Vlora won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014. His following novels The Candidate and The Prime Minister were the best selling books at the Tirana Book Fair in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Blushi is an atheist.

In 1999 Blushi embarked upon a political career in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fatos Nano. For several months he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in late 2000 he became Prefect of Korça. He served as Minister of Education and Minister of Local Governance and Decentralization.

Blushi was a Member of Parliament for the Socialist Party before creating a new party, LIBRA, in October 2016. Subsequently he has been an MP for LIBRA.



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