Fatos Arapi (19 July 1930[1] – 11 October 2018) was an Albanian poet, short story writer, translator and journalist.

Arapi's publications have been highly praised by his readers and his peers and have been awarded various national and international poetry prizes.

[3] He authored more than twenty-five books including six poetry collections and many short stories and novels.

He translated the works of Sappho, Pablo Neruda and Nikola Vaptsarov into Albanian.

He wrote several novels, including Wild Geese, Snow Cove, and Headless Genius.