Maria Antonia Braile (born San Demetrio Corone, Calabria) was an Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian.

She was born in San Demetrio Corone in Calabria July the 13 1894 and she married in 1913 Rocco De Benedetto.[1] Braile published in 1917 in Calabria, Italy, a collection of poems in Arbëresh language, entitled Canti.[2]

Braile is part of the Albanian world of poetry. Her poetry is simple and melancholic.[3] She will be remembered as the first Albanian woman poet.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Maximilian Lambertz (1959), Lehrgang des Albanischen: Grammatik der albanischen Sprache, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, p. 17, OCLC 310695315, Maria Antonia Braile aus S. Demetrio Corone (Cosenza)
  2. ↑ Jorgaqi, Nasho (8 March 2015). "Nasho Jorgaqi: Zërat e parë femërorë të letërsisë shqipe". Shqiptarja. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Giuseppe Gradilone (1983). La letteratura albanese e il mondo classico: 4 studi. Bulzoni. p. 215.
  4. ↑ Kodra, Klara (March 2003). "Poetesha e parë arbëreshe dhe shqiptare : Maria Antonia Braile". Diana. p. 4. Retrieved 14 November 2015.


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