Vangjel Canga

Vangjel Canga (Vanca) was born in Tirana, Albania on June 22, 1979 where he also completed high school in 1998.

Since 1998 he has studied and worked in Athens, Greece (except for a one-year break for studying in England, UK).

He has written his first poems around 1996, but has worked more seriously in this direction during the 2004-2005 period and since 2008.

Besides poetry, he is also interested in the visual arts like painting and photography, and also music. The pictures used as illustrations in his first book (The Visual Non Visuals) are in fact selected from his sketches from 2003 until today.

Before his first book, a few of his poems have also been published in the Albanian-language magazine "Pelegrin" of the "Drita"(Light) society of Albanian writers in Athens.

NOTE:
There might be a little confusion with the name in Albanian and Greek.
The canonical name is that in Albanian (Vangjel Canga).
The most correct spelling for international readers is that of transliterated Greek (Vangelis Tsangas - that is, the surname is not pronouced 'Kanga' but 'Tsanga', the name is similar to that of the famous composer - Vangelis - a quite common name in Greece).