Skifter Këlliçi

Skifter Këlliçi (born January 17, 1938), is an Albanian fiction writer, screenwriter, sports journalist, and radio & TV personality. He started the first radio program that broadcast live sports events in 1958 on Radio Televizioni Shqiptar, the Rubrika Sportive, a show that continues to this day, and later did the same on the Albanian television. He has been a successful screenwriter with movies such as Pas gjurmëve (English: Following the tracks), winner of the international Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, in 1979.

Skifter Këlliçi was born on January 17, 1938 in Tirana, Albania, where he finished his secondary studies in 1955. In 1959, he graduated from the University of Tirana in Albanian Language and Literature, and started working as a journalist and a sports' commentator at the Radio Televizioni Shqiptar, where he had already interned, starting from 1958. He pioneered a very well known radio show, called Rubrika sportive, which would comment on the sports events of the weekend. Later, Këlliçi would start the same show in the Albanian Television, thus becoming the first anchorman of this show, which still continues today. Because of a long political persecution during the years 1975-1985, Këlliçi could no longer host the Rubrika sportive show in the Albanian television. He returned as an anchorman in 1985, but was again politically persecuted in 1986, and disappeared once more from the screens. Along with Anton Mazreku, and Ismet Bellova, Këlliçi is considered one of the most renowned sports commentators in the Albanian speaking world.

Këlliçi has also been successful in creative and nonfiction writing, a field in which he has published more than 20 books, consisting of short stories, novels, as well as screenplays. Among them are children's novels like 'Kujtimet e mëhallës së vjetër' (English: Memories from the old neighborhood), (1967), and 'Pas gjurmëve' (English: Following the tracks), (1972). The later was the basis for Këlliçi's screenplay of the movie with the same title, which won the Prize of the President of the Italian Republic at the International Giffoni Film Festival, Italy in 1979, and 'Shpërthimi' (English: The Explosion) (1983), on whose motives he also wrote the screenplay of the movie 'Fushë e blertë, fushë e kuqe' (English: Green field, red field)(1985).

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