In April 2008, Ben Blushi published his first novel Të jetosh në ishull (Living on an Island).

The novel covers Albanian history under the Ottoman Empire (15th–18th centuries), with a broad and not uncontroversial treatment of the country's Islamization.

[1] His second novel, Othello, The Moor of Vlora won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2014.

[4] In 1999 Blushi embarked upon a political career in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fatos Nano.

[8] In January 2018 he quit the party and politics and became the general director of the Top Channel with a wage that surpasses many of his European colleagues.