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Doruntina Basha

Profession: WriterWriter
Country: Kosovo
is an award-winning playwright from Prishtina (Kosovo). She obtained her BA degree at the University of Prishtina in Playwriting and Screenwriting, and her MA from the EU Erasmus Mundus Masters PRogram ‚Crossways in European Humanities‘, from the consortium of universitites comprising of University of St. Andrews (UK), Universita degli studi di Bergamo (IT), Universite de Perpignan Via Domitia (FR). Her 2011 play ‚Gishti‘ (The Fingerú won in 2012 the Golden Aurel in the category ‚Best Balkan Contemporary Play‘ in MESS International Theater Festival Sarajevo, and in 2011 the Best Socially Engaged Contemporary Play, in a Western Balkan drama competition organized by Heartefact Fund, Belgrade (Serbia). Her plays have been published in Kosovo, Serbia, France and UK, and they have been translated in BHS, MAcedonian, English, French, Italian and German. She worked in television in Kosovo. She’s also the author of several scripts for short films produced in Kosovo.
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Vera dreams of the Sea

Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive mother, and a caring grandmother. Her serene life is disrupted by her ...
MIDPOINT participants: Doruntina Basha
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Vera dreams of the Sea

Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive mother, and a caring grandmother. Her serene life is disrupted by her ...
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