PART OF DEPAUL UNIVERSITY’S HIDAI "EDDIE" BREGU LECTURES: Join translator and literary critic Janice Mathie-Heck and Suzana Vuljevic in a discussion of Gjergj Fishta's Highland Lute.

In their long awaited translation of the Albanian national epic, published in 2005, Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck made a foundational text of the national tradition legible to modern audiences. On the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Fishta’s birth, we reconsider this work in light of recent tributes and reassess the author’s significance to modern Albanian literature.