Viola Isufaj is an author and Associate Professor of Contemporary Albanian Literature at the Department of Literature, Faculty of History and Philology, University of Tirana, Albania. She is the author of several books, ranging from research, university texts, literary fiction and poetry. She has published many scholarly papers and high school textbooks. Her first novel, Zotit M. – një letër/To Mr. M. – a Letter (Tirana, 2004) focuses on the loss of present day human communications, and opens up with an introduction by Ismail Kadare, the world-class Albanian writer, who describes the novel as a “sweet, sober and luxurious wonder”. Originating from a family that was persecuted by the totalitarian regime, she was a teenager when communism collapsed in Albania and metaphorically expressed these events in her second novel Saga e gjarprit/Snake’s Saga (Tirana, 2005). The third novel Ditë të askujt/Nobody’s Days (Tirana, 2008), was followed by the publication of several cycles in poetry and the book Adamah (Tirana, 2016). With Adamah, Viola Isufaj was awarded the First Prize in Poetry at the 2016 Prishtina International Book Fair, Prishtina, Kosovo. She also won the First Prize of the 2017 National Poetry Festival in Korça, Albania and was runner up for the 2015 Tirana International Albanian Book Fair Award. Viola Isufaj has also translated poetry work into Albanian, the most important of them, the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay as well as some parts of Irish mythological cycle.