Ardian Kycyku – Pen names: Ardian-Christian Kyçyku / Kuciuk, writer in the Albanian and Romanian
languages, born on the 23rd of August 1969, Pogradec, Albania. Author of many
original books (novels, short stories, plays, scenarios, scientific studies,
essays, anthologies, translations).
Bachelor of Arts at the Tirana University (Albania), Faculty of History and Philology (Albanian Language – Albanian and Universal Literature, 1991, Diploma’s work: ‘Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud – communions and differences’)
Doctor in Comparative and Universal Literature at the Bucharest University – ‘Directions in European Modernism and their Echo in the Interwar Period of Albanian Literature’ (1998)
University Professor (Semiotics and Communication / The Research Methodology)
Certificate of Qualification (Habil.) in the field of doctoral studies in Theatre and Performing Arts
Between 2008 and 2020 he was a dean and a rector in Bucharest
Since 1998 he is the co-founder and co-director of European Review “Haemus”, which has an archive of over 9.500 pages, and of Librarium Haemus Editions.
Founding member of the Albanian Cultural Association “Haemus”
B o o k s written and published in Albanian
In the empire of stone, novel, Tirana 1993
The Deathers, novel, Pristina1998, Tirana 2020
The Night After Year Zero, novel, Pristina 1999
The Muse of the Game, trilogy, Bucharest 1999
The Translation or the Life of a Slave that doesn’t Swear He Can See, novel, Bucharest 1999
The Rivers of the Sahara, novel, Tirana 2000, Bucharest 2010, Pristina 2017
The Appetite for Heaven Bread, novel, Tirana 2000
Diva or Flowers Devourer, novel, Elbasan 2000
Useless Angels, novel, Pristina 2002
The Crystal and the hyenas, novel, Pristina 2002, Bucharest 2015
Eye/s, novel, Bucharest 2004, Pristina 2005, Tirana 2008
The conquest of Crazystan, short stories, Pristina 2004
Instead of Eternity, play, Pristina 2007
Home, novel, Pristina/ Berlin 2014
Kiss Me You, Skeleton, Bucharest 2007
The viceBook, play, Bucharest 2007
The Neutral Blood, play, Bucharest 2008
The Father, novel, Bucharest 2008, Tirana 2017
Your Excellency, play, Pristina 2009
One world away, play, Bucharest 2012
Pearl/s, selected short stories, Pogradec 2012
Unseen stories, short stories, Pristina/ Bucharest 2013
Ki$land – a novel with childhood, Tirana 2014
Like, play, Bucharest 2016, Pristina 2017
Trialogue [an interdisciplinary work regarding the links between literature and exile and the languages it chooses in order to protect Memory and Metaphor], in Albanian, with abstracts in Romanian and English, Bucharest 2016, work-in-progress
Incógnito [Fragments from the life of guardians and vice versa], novel, Tirana 2016
The Threshold or Death writes with two hands, novel, Bucharest 2019
Homo ex machina – three plays, 2019
Anonima or Tirana in the shadow of a passenger, 2020
Childhood cr(imes)eations, 2021
Zo-om, novellas, 2023
The Doublebook, 2025
B o o k s written and published in Romanian
The year in which the Swan was Invented, novel, Bucharest 1997
The Sweet Secret of Madness, 33 proses + 22 original graphics, Bucharest 1998
A Glorious and Dying Tribe – The Saga of an Oblivion, Bucharest 1998
Love at Last Sight, stories and a play, Bucharest 2000
Epigone God, monograph, Timisoara – Bratislava, 2000
Trilogy, three novels, Bucharest 2002
Time of the Substitutes, interview, Bucharest 2003
Siege – a novel with very few inverted commas, Bucharest 2004, 2007
Ex – novel with love & conspiracy, Bucharest 2008, 2010
Introduction to Semiotics, university lectures, Constanta 2005
The Signs and the Citadel, university lectures, Bucharest 2007
Empatycon or The Book of Premature Life, novel, Bucharest 2008
Space for a only one doll – a film to be narrated / a story to be filmed, Bucharest 2008
The sky in an envelope – a film to be narrated / a story to be filmed, Bucharest 2010
Casting or the Curtain doesn't separate anything anymore, play, Bucharest 2011
My last Million, anthology of Balkan literary texts, 2013
Comunicare in-humanum est, interdisciplinary studies, Bucharest 2014
Outism and Insomnia, interdisciplinary studies, Bucharest 2014
The Epocalypse, novel, Bucharest 2014
Instead of Eternity, play, 2015
A grammar of Exile [in two "foreign" languages], essay, 2015
The genre – a play with an act and a murder, play, 2019
The Prompters’ exodus – stereodrama, 2022
The Print(ing)house, monodrama, 2022
The Co-author – broken poems, 2023
The last people filmed, theater, 2024
Boundaries between the Theater of Existence and the Existence of Theater – a semiotics of Ingmar Bergman's vision as a theater man, 2025
A ɸ (in Romanian it also means To be) or A Millimeter of Grace, screenplay / dramatic text, 2025
Academica
Translations
An alphabet of Albanian poetry (anthology, 101 Albanian poets in Romanian), Bucharest 2003
Events in immediate unreality (Max Blecher, Întâmplări în realitatea imediată - Ngjarje nga zhgjëndrra e tanishme, in Albanian), Tirana, 2024
Events in immediate unreality (Max Blecher, Întâmplări în realitatea imediată - Ngjarje nga zhgjëndrra e tanishme, in Albanian), Tirana, 2024
The Floating Library, Arian Leka, author anthology, translated from Albanian and including critical apparatus, Charmides Publishing House, Bistrița, 2017
Mihaela, the Tiger of Our City (Mihaela, tigresha e qytetit tonë) Gianina Cărbunariu – play, translation included in the anthology My Name is Balkan, Tirana
Amalia Breathes Deeply (Amalia merr frymë thellë) Alina Nelega – play, translation and presentation, in the anthology My Name is Balkan, Tirana
War in the Time of Love, Jeton Neziraj play, translation and presentation, Haemus Magazine
Anthology of Albanian Poetry, translated into Romanian, project supported by the EU, 2000
Anthology of North Macedonian Poetry, translated into Romanian, project supported by the EU, 2000
* Books and / or fragments translated inHungarian, Italian, English, German, Serbian, French, Greek etc.
Long, medium and
short film scripts
The Supplement – The Movie of a Return / The Return of a Movie (AL), The Rhyme (AL), A Guide (RO), Relationshop (RO) – film / ballet play, Sticking (RO)
Short Eastories (cycle of scripts for feature films: Pas, The rest is Theater, Vox, - 2023, ro., work in progress)
Short and very short films (as
Scriptwriter, Cinematographer and Editor)
A bridge, Lines, The Seat, Barlove, A lesson, the Point, Librorum, Umbra ex machina, Dearection, Tubim (rrëfilm – AL) / Assembly, A Facemap, Lost masterpiece/s, Mirrors in progress – A short semiotic view on the Ingmar Bergman phenomenon, il filo / figlio del sogno, the viceBook, the Seeners, the Indeependance, Prompter's exodus, Grace, Rope, Shadow's Theoreme, Syziphos – on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@arkycyku
Videolectures: https://keynema.blogspot.com
[Awards and honors: National Literary Prize of Albania ‘Silver Pen’,
Tirana 2013; Honorary Citizen of Pogradec 2014; Kult Academy Prize ‘The best
book / The best author’, Tirana 2015 and 2018; Prize II ‘Katarina Josip’ for
Albanian Original Drama, Pristina2016; Grand Prix at Très Court International
Film Festival – Cluj-Napoca 2017; Ambassador of the Nation, Tirana 2019]
Bachelor of Arts at the Tirana University (Albania), Faculty of History and Philology (Albanian Language – Albanian and Universal Literature, 1991, Diploma’s work: ‘Stefan Zweig and Sigmund Freud – communions and differences’)
Doctor in Comparative and Universal Literature at the Bucharest University – ‘Directions in European Modernism and their Echo in the Interwar Period of Albanian Literature’ (1998)
University Professor (Semiotics and Communication / The Research Methodology)
Certificate of Qualification (Habil.) in the field of doctoral studies in Theatre and Performing Arts
Between 2008 and 2020 he was a dean and a rector in Bucharest
Since 1998 he is the co-founder and co-director of European Review “Haemus”, which has an archive of over 9.500 pages, and of Librarium Haemus Editions.
Founding member of the Albanian Cultural Association “Haemus”
B o o k s written and published in Albanian
In the empire of stone, novel, Tirana 1993
The Deathers, novel, Pristina1998, Tirana 2020
The Night After Year Zero, novel, Pristina 1999
The Muse of the Game, trilogy, Bucharest 1999
The Translation or the Life of a Slave that doesn’t Swear He Can See, novel, Bucharest 1999
The Rivers of the Sahara, novel, Tirana 2000, Bucharest 2010, Pristina 2017
The Appetite for Heaven Bread, novel, Tirana 2000
Diva or Flowers Devourer, novel, Elbasan 2000
Useless Angels, novel, Pristina 2002
The Crystal and the hyenas, novel, Pristina 2002, Bucharest 2015
Eye/s, novel, Bucharest 2004, Pristina 2005, Tirana 2008
The conquest of Crazystan, short stories, Pristina 2004
Instead of Eternity, play, Pristina 2007
Home, novel, Pristina/ Berlin 2014
Kiss Me You, Skeleton, Bucharest 2007
The viceBook, play, Bucharest 2007
The Neutral Blood, play, Bucharest 2008
The Father, novel, Bucharest 2008, Tirana 2017
Your Excellency, play, Pristina 2009
One world away, play, Bucharest 2012
Pearl/s, selected short stories, Pogradec 2012
Unseen stories, short stories, Pristina/ Bucharest 2013
Ki$land – a novel with childhood, Tirana 2014
Like, play, Bucharest 2016, Pristina 2017
Trialogue [an interdisciplinary work regarding the links between literature and exile and the languages it chooses in order to protect Memory and Metaphor], in Albanian, with abstracts in Romanian and English, Bucharest 2016, work-in-progress
Incógnito [Fragments from the life of guardians and vice versa], novel, Tirana 2016
The Threshold or Death writes with two hands, novel, Bucharest 2019
Homo ex machina – three plays, 2019
Anonima or Tirana in the shadow of a passenger, 2020
Childhood cr(imes)eations, 2021
Zo-om, novellas, 2023
The Doublebook, 2025
B o o k s written and published in Romanian
The year in which the Swan was Invented, novel, Bucharest 1997
The Sweet Secret of Madness, 33 proses + 22 original graphics, Bucharest 1998
A Glorious and Dying Tribe – The Saga of an Oblivion, Bucharest 1998
Love at Last Sight, stories and a play, Bucharest 2000
Epigone God, monograph, Timisoara – Bratislava, 2000
Trilogy, three novels, Bucharest 2002
Time of the Substitutes, interview, Bucharest 2003
Siege – a novel with very few inverted commas, Bucharest 2004, 2007
Ex – novel with love & conspiracy, Bucharest 2008, 2010
Introduction to Semiotics, university lectures, Constanta 2005
The Signs and the Citadel, university lectures, Bucharest 2007
Empatycon or The Book of Premature Life, novel, Bucharest 2008
Space for a only one doll – a film to be narrated / a story to be filmed, Bucharest 2008
The sky in an envelope – a film to be narrated / a story to be filmed, Bucharest 2010
Casting or the Curtain doesn't separate anything anymore, play, Bucharest 2011
My last Million, anthology of Balkan literary texts, 2013
Comunicare in-humanum est, interdisciplinary studies, Bucharest 2014
Outism and Insomnia, interdisciplinary studies, Bucharest 2014
The Epocalypse, novel, Bucharest 2014
Instead of Eternity, play, 2015
A grammar of Exile [in two "foreign" languages], essay, 2015
The genre – a play with an act and a murder, play, 2019
The Prompters’ exodus – stereodrama, 2022
The Print(ing)house, monodrama, 2022
The Co-author – broken poems, 2023
The last people filmed, theater, 2024
Boundaries between the Theater of Existence and the Existence of Theater – a semiotics of Ingmar Bergman's vision as a theater man, 2025
A ɸ (in Romanian it also means To be) or A Millimeter of Grace, screenplay / dramatic text, 2025
An alphabet of Albanian poetry (anthology, 101 Albanian poets in Romanian), Bucharest 2003
Events in immediate unreality (Max Blecher, Întâmplări în realitatea imediată - Ngjarje nga zhgjëndrra e tanishme, in Albanian), Tirana, 2024
Events in immediate unreality (Max Blecher, Întâmplări în realitatea imediată - Ngjarje nga zhgjëndrra e tanishme, in Albanian), Tirana, 2024
The Floating Library, Arian Leka, author anthology, translated from Albanian and including critical apparatus, Charmides Publishing House, Bistrița, 2017
Mihaela, the Tiger of Our City (Mihaela, tigresha e qytetit tonë) Gianina Cărbunariu – play, translation included in the anthology My Name is Balkan, Tirana
Amalia Breathes Deeply (Amalia merr frymë thellë) Alina Nelega – play, translation and presentation, in the anthology My Name is Balkan, Tirana
War in the Time of Love, Jeton Neziraj play, translation and presentation, Haemus Magazine
Anthology of Albanian Poetry, translated into Romanian, project supported by the EU, 2000
Anthology of North Macedonian Poetry, translated into Romanian, project supported by the EU, 2000
The Supplement – The Movie of a Return / The Return of a Movie (AL), The Rhyme (AL), A Guide (RO), Relationshop (RO) – film / ballet play, Sticking (RO)
Short Eastories (cycle of scripts for feature films: Pas, The rest is Theater, Vox, - 2023, ro., work in progress)
A bridge, Lines, The Seat, Barlove, A lesson, the Point, Librorum, Umbra ex machina, Dearection, Tubim (rrëfilm – AL) / Assembly, A Facemap, Lost masterpiece/s, Mirrors in progress – A short semiotic view on the Ingmar Bergman phenomenon, il filo / figlio del sogno, the viceBook, the Seeners, the Indeependance, Prompter's exodus, Grace, Rope, Shadow's Theoreme, Syziphos – on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@arkycyku
Videolectures: https://keynema.blogspot.com