Drita Çomo

Drita Çomo (Tiranë, March 19, 1958 - February 19, 1981) was an Albanian poet.

Biography She was born on March 19, 1958, in Tirana, the daughter of Maqo Çomo and Liri Belishova, both prominent communist figures who had held important roles during and after the National Liberation Movement in Albania. At the age of two, in 1960, together with her mother they were interned in Kuç near Vlorë. After the Soviet-Albanian split, both her parents were accused of spying for the Soviet Union against the Party of Labour.

After being interned in Kuç, they moved to Progonat, and later to Cërrik while her father, Maqo Çomo, a former partisan commander and later Minister of Agriculture, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

During the internment in Cërrik, Drita managed to complete high school, but due to progressive cancer she was unable to take her final graduation exams.

She died at the age of 23 at the Oncology Hospital in Tirana. She died alone and without being allowed to have her mother by her side.