Leom The Author Biography

Leom is a poet, novelist, and philosopher, born in Albania but shaped in the vast embrace of the world. He has walked across continents, breathed foreign languages as if they were his own, and carried in his memory the songs, colors, and silences of many peoples. Wherever he lived, he left words; wherever he departed, he carried stories with him. That is why he says his home is not a place, but the world itself. He is the author of seventy-two books of poems, novels, proverbs, sonnets, and spiritual works; he writes in Albanian, Spanish, and English, with the naturalness of someone who hears three hearts beating at the same time. His work reaches a singular brilliance in an achievement that once seemed impossible: five hundred years after Shakespeare, Leom has become the first poet capable of returning to the world the breath of the Shakespearean sonnet. Since Shakespeare's one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, no one had managed to revive that form with fidelity, depth, and grace. Leom has, and for that reason he has written more than two thousand sonnets, thousands of poems, thousands of aphorisms, and dozens of novels, with the unique touch of someone who builds a bridge between centuries. From him have been born the "Leomnian Sonnets, " written in English: a constellation of their own in which the Shakespearean structure is reborn richer, more complex, fuller of metaphors and healing thoughts. In all his novels, verses, and phrases, the classical becomes new and the new becomes eternal. Thus, Leom not only writes: he illuminates. He does not simply create sonnets and nourish minds and hearts: he creates paths. And on each one, the reader finds a trace that does not fade, a voice that does not age, an emotion that is born again.