After the war, he was a member of the People's Assembly and one of the founders and later president of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists.

In addition to a series of books and novels, he has published numerous volumes of textbooks, especially those on the History of Albanian Literature for high schools.

He studied at the University of Grenoble and Lyon in France and taught school in Elbasan in 1942–1943.

Shuteriqi began writing in the 1930s and was to become an influential literary historian during the socialist period.

He was inspired by Romanticism (Victor Hugo, Lamartine, De Vigny, Byron, etc.)