Kim Mehmeti: Through our Albania everything but crime and mafia, it works in pieces.

Promoting literary works remains a separate problem, even according to the laureate of this edition. The career award has been given to writer Kim Mehmet with motivation: “For the original style in the creation of artistic polyphony that characterizes the novel Pusião, as well as his entire literary work”, writes today “Koha Ditore”.

The focus of this year's fair was reading. But, according to the career price laureate Kim Mehmeti, complain about the lack of policies for the book in states run by states “that neither abser have read to the end, it is as if you complain that there are no reading halls in public homes”.

There will be no policies for the book and for Albanian art, as long as we have the ministry of culture that cares only for its cultural presidentate and the creators of its party”, he has told the newspaper.

Mehmeti has said he has surprised the small turnout of publishers from Kosovo. He's identified other things.

It seems as strange to me that media judge about books published two or three days before the fair opens. I'm not naive, I know that the book is also small that you should praise it to sell, but I believe that for literary values, it's not the media noise being made around them, he said. In this case, it has gone further with marketing. And then I get the impression that book fairs begin to resemble widows' markets, where it doesn't matter whether it's goods that sell, but the shamelessness of the sellers deafing their ears with the cry of praise for the goods they sell”, Mehmet said. In his view, it is very good that Albanian spaces have book fairs, and it is also discussed for reading. But he proposes more debates.

Mehmet says he would like to be wrong, but more and more he becomes convinced that cultural institutions have submitted to the thinking of political divisions and function through “principaties”, feeling them self-sufficient and feeling self-sufficient.

How much more, when we even within our cultural priorities do each of us at his own party's funeral, where the most privileged are those of the ruling”, he said.

After visiting the biggest event of the book in Albania, Mehmeti has said that we, even when we write and read Albanian, do not think so in our mother tongue. Because, if we thought of the Albanian, it wouldn't happen that through our Albanian world everything, except for crime and mafia, would function as disunited and uncoordinated as something international.