About Ornela Vorpsi
Born 1968. Ornela Vorpsi is an Albanian photographer, writer, painter and video artist.
Ornela Vorpsi (born 3 August 1968, Tirana), is an Albanian writer and photographer from the Vorpsi family in Tirana. Ornela studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, and has been living and working in Paris since 1997. An excerpt of her novel The Country Where One Never Dies was included in Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksander Hemon and prefaced by Zadie Smith.
Novels 2001 – Nothing Obvious 2003 – The Country Where One Never Dies 2015 – Travel Around the Mother
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Who is Ornela Vorpsi?
Albanian photographer and writer
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Ornela Vorpsi was born on 3 August 1968 in Tirana.
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Ornela Vorpsi is a photographer, writer, painter and video artist.
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Ornela Vorpsi is Albanian.
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