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Loer Kume (born in Durrës, on April 12, 1982) is an Albanian writer, prose author, and essayist

Biografia
He has been writing and publishing since a very young age in children’s magazines.

He stood out in literary competitions as a promising young writer during high school at Gjergj Kastrioti Gymnasium.

In 2005, he graduated in dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine in Tirana.

He currently lives and practices as a dentist and technical director of Klinika Kume in the city of Durrës.

He describes his midnight work as ‘writing in a semi-conscious manner,’ working in a ‘non-systematic but persistent way towards the fate of a writer,’ as he himself says. The result of this persistent work has initially been the stories published in various literary periodicals both within the country and abroad, such as Milosao, Obelisk, Drita, ARS, Fjala, Pelegrin, Mehr Licht, etc. He has been present online since 2007, and still today with the interactive blog loerkume.blogspot.com

In 2011, toena was published his first book, Lux. A collection of stories that sparked curiosity and reactions in readers’ circles with the poetry of the sentence, new themes in Albanian literature, writing style and controversy for the title as references to the occult, the cult of Lucifer, pornography, necrophilia, the oppressive apparatus of the state.

In 2015 he co-created and participated, the anthology art book of a group of young artists and poets called ‘Anthology of Poetry and Visual Arts – A Dangerous Method’

Through a cycle of essays under the title “Albanian Sphere” is constantly active in the daily press in analysis of the social phenomena of Albanianness.

In 2017, albas publishes the novel “Short History of The Mess”.

In June 2019, Loer Kume was named winner of the Kadare Prize, in a list of 54 contestants, with the manuscript a collection of stories called ‘Amygdala Mandala’’, as the representative of a new generation of writers who experiments with literature, in search of new literary forms away from commercialism and the ordinary in literature, thus bringing a collection of stories with new spirit in Albanian literature.’

Amygdala Mandala was published in July 2019 by UET publishing house. Press.