Azem Qazimi is an Albanian poet, writer and translator. He was born in Struga, on 6 February 1977. He studied Journalism at the University of Tirana; later, he earned his master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the Academy of Albanological Studies. Qazimi has published three books of poems Ajri i Kryqëzimit (The Air of Crucifixion), Për Dhuntinë e Mahnitjes (On the Gift of Amazement), Psikagogjia (Psychagogy), as well as two collections of short stories Të Bekuarit, Sfera (The Blessed, the Sphere) and Anatomi e shkurtër e pikëllimit (Brief anatomy of grief). He is the founder and the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Helicon, and translator of Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Thomas S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Jorge Luis Borges, Mircea Eliade, Danilo Kiš, John Banville, Vasko Popa, etc.