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.
[1] 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 (The bridge), Kur mbaron e vdes burri (When the man finishes and dies), Portat e diellit (The gates to the sun), Pse e vranë Odisenë (Why was Odissey killed), Njerëz dhe gurë (Men and stones), Kur zbardhi një ditë (A day's dawn).