Sabri Godo
| Sabri Godo | |
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| Born |
8 August 1929 Delvinë, Albania |
| Died | 3 December 2011 (aged 82) Tirana, Albania |
| Resting place | Tufine, Tirana, Albania |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Occupation | Writer, Screenwriter, Politician |
| Known for |
Founder and Chairman of the Republican Party of Albania Honorary President and Chairman of the National Assembly of PR Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee co-chairman in drafting the New Constitution of the Republic of Albania in 1998 |
| Predecessor | none |
| Successor | Fatmir Mediu |
| Political party | Republican Party of Albania |
| Spouse(s) | Nevin Godo (Vrioni) |
| Children | Ermira Godo , Anila Godo |
Founder and Chairman of the Republican Party of Albania
Honorary President and Chairman of the National Assembly of PR
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Sabri Godo (8 August 1929, Delvinë - 3 December 2011Tiranë) was a distinguished Albanian writer, politician and screenwriter. He came from a culture-loving family with deep rooted patriotic traditions. Being brought up in the Totaj family from his mother's side, Godo spent his youth in a literary and patriotic environment.
Godo attended primary school in the city of his birth, Delvina, south Albania. Then he transferred to Tirana for high school, which was forced to interrupt during the third year after being actively involved in the anti-fascist war. For 23 months, from July 1943 to May 1945, Godo was part of the 6th Brigade and took part in all of its battles throughout Albania and Yugoslavia, where he was awarded for remarkable bravery.
He served as an officer in the army until 1948 and then was dismissed as "politically unwanted". In 1953 expelled from the communist party, which had joined in February 1944. With the expulsion begins his cavalcade through the years of the dictatorship. Because of the marriage with a girl from an aristocratic family (Vrioni) and his belonging to a family of intellectuals, opponents of the regime, who were shot, imprisoned and/or in exile, his life was multiple times of the razor's edge, up to the verge of incarceration.
Godo is known as a "rare pen", with historical novels, the most sensational and discussed are and . He never stopped researching and rewriting these figures that exceeded the size of the nation. These critically acclaimed novels have been translated into several languages and reprinted and revised several times.
As a connoisseur of the human character, he wrote novels and short stories about the war. The works suffered a hard censorship and the regime accused him of depicting the war in a non-heroic way. In 1974 he was expelled from the "League of Writers" for "deviations from socialist realism" and sent to "reeducation" for 11 years (1974-1985). Godo had an intense activity in journalism, particularly in the journal "Hosteni", with over four thousand published pages with critical articles and editorials.
In the 1990s, he was involved from the beginning in the anticommunist movement and on January 10, 1990 formed the Republican Party of Albania, (PR) a right-wing party, allied with the Democratic Party .PR had underlying in its program the respect for private property, family and the nations unification. For eight years, Godo was chairman of the party, to resign later, paving the way for the young people. From 1998 until his last days, he was Honorary President and Chairman of the National Assembly of PR.
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