Anastas Kondo


Anastas Kondo was an Albanian writer, screenwriter, and micropaleontologist.

Life

Anastas Kondo was born on 28 November 1937 in Kuçovë, Albania, and hailed from a family from Vuno, in Himarë municipality, on the Albanian riviera. He studied in the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology and graduated there as a geologist. Kondo became one of the main textbook authors and undertook several scientific studies on micropaleontology in Albania.
Kondo has been the screenwriter of movies such as Misioni përtej detit, Dimri i madh, Kur zbardhi një ditë, Partizani i vogël Velo, etc. He has won national prizes on several books published such as the short stories volumes Ura, Kur mbaron e vdes burri, Portat e diellit, Pse e vranë Odisenë, Njerëz dhe gurë, Kur zbardhi një ditë.
He has been a Deputy Minister of Education as well as secretary of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists. Died in 2006.