Writer and screenwriter Teodor Laço remembered on the 90th anniversary of his birth

On September 29, 1936, the writer, screenwriter and former culture minister Teodor Laço was born in the village of Dardhë, Korçë.

He studied agronomy at the University of Tirana, but his early passion for writing determined his fate. In 1965 he published his first book, “Era e tokës”, followed three years later by “Shtëpia në rrugicë”. Teodor Laço is the author of dozens of novels, story collections, dramas, comedies and film or documentary scripts, leaving behind a great treasure for Albanian letters.

After the 1990s he became involved in politics, as an MP, culture minister and later ambassador. He wrote some of his later works in his birth village, Dardhë. His heart stopped beating on October 15, 2016.

Some of the films with Teodor Laço as screenwriter are: “Përballimi”, “Streha e re”, “Ditët që sollën pranverën”, “Dorina”, “Shtëpia jonë e përbashkët”, “Asgjë nuk harrohet”, “Tri ditë nga një jetë”, “Dhe vjen një ditë”, “Flutura në kabinën time”, “Vitet e pritjes”, the comedy “Shi në plazh”, and others.