Petro Janura

Petro Janura (1911–1983) was a main personality of the Albanian language, literature, and folklore in Yugoslavia during the mid-1950s to the 1980s. A writer, journalist, folklorist, pedagogue, literary critic, and researcher, he is remembered as the founder of the Albanian language Catedra of the University of Skopje, and editor-in-chief of Skopje-based periodicals as Flaka e vëllazërimit (Flame of brotherhood), and Jehona (The echo).

Life Janura was born on 25 March 1911 in Fier, then still part of the Ottoman Empire. He emigrated to Romania at an early age and finished high school there. Janura studied law in Italy and graduated in jurisprudence from the University of Pisa. In 1941 he returned to Albania (at that time the Albanian Kingdom under Italy) where he started working as a judge in Gostivar, which had been recently incorporated in the Albanian state. and a poetry collections for children.

Publications Naim Frasheri. Work. (Naim Frasheri. Vepra), Beograd: Enti për botimin e teksteve i Republikës Socialiste të Sërbisë, 1963. OCLC 504735974. Early illuminist ideas of the Albanians of Polog (Ranite iluministički idei kaj Albancite vo Polog), Skopje 1983. OCLC 442193922. Migjeni, Sopje: Flaka e vëllazërimit, 1982. OCLC 440105087. For the history of the Albanian alphabet (Për historinë e alfabetit shqip), Skopje: Nova Makedonia, 1969. OCLC 50816250. Folk tales (Përralla popullore), as collector and editor, Skopje: Nova Makedonija, 1964. Crane, you hadji-beg (O lejlek haxhibek), Skopje: Nova Makedonija, 1968. Longing of the emigrants (Përmallimi i gyrbetçijve) of Milisav Antonijevic-Drimkolski, as translator, Pristina: Rilindja, 1958.