Sokol Çunga is an archivist and the head of the Department of the Rare Languages at the Directory of the Documents Processing of the General Directorate of the Archives of Albania. Since 2013 he is a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of History and Philology, Tirana University. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Slavo-Balkanic languages (2006); holds a MA degree from the Ionian University, Faculty of History, Corfu, Greece (2016). He is currently a PhD student at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, School of Philosophy, Department of Philology. Since 2008 he has been working at the Central State Archive and, besides carrying out daily duties, he is active on promoting the documentary of the GDA. He was awarded the “Best Young Researcher on Humanities and Albanological Sciences 2016” from the Academy of Sciences of Albania for the facsimile publication and research “The Tetraevangeleion of Korça, The Codex of Korça no. 93” (in coo-authorship with Andi Rembeci).
Primarily a translator of Greek and English literature into Albanian, he has produced a significant corpus of over a dozen translations spanning both poetry and prose. This literary vocation is mirrored by a career-long dedication to civic and cultural activism. His positions on public life are widely disseminated across digital and print platforms, underpinned by the philosophical ethos of the Albanian intellectual Faik Konica: ‘Let us work without the burden of hope or the fog of illusion, finding refuge in the detached curiosity of a dilettante.’