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Luan Starova is an Albanian-Macedonian writer and translator whose work provides new understandings of the Balkans, a region known in the West more for discord than discussion. A former professor of French literature and a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences, he is the author of more than eighteen works, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages.