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 more than 55 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 Stylistics of the Theater / Techniques for writing the scientific texts).
Between 2008 and 2020 he was a dean and a rector.
Since 1998 he is the co-founder and co-director of European Review “Haemus”, which has an archive of over 9.000 pages.
Founding member of the Albanian Cultural Association “Haemus”
In the empire of stone, novel, Tirana 1993
The Death Family, 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 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
Eyes, 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], 365 pages in academic format, 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 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
An alphabet of Albanian poetry (anthology, 101 Albanian poets
in Romanian), Bucharest 2003
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
Prompters’ exodus – stereodrama, 2022
The Print(ing)house, monodrama, 2022
The Co-author – broken poems, 2023
* Books and / or fragments translated in Hungarian, 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 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 – on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZvBFEl5VIeO_rg-iM5GBQ
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]