Misto Treska

Misto Treska (19 April 1914 – 23 June 1993) was an Albanian translator, diplomat (Ambassador), writer and politician of Albania during communist regime.

Treska was also one of the prosecutors of the military trial in which Axis collaborators Lef Nosi, Anton Harapi, Maliq Bushati were sentenced to death.

New World), the socio-political and literary journals of the time, together with the then distinguished writers, like Sterjo Spase, Migjeni, Petro Marko, Nonda Bulka etc.

In April 1939, he was arrested for resistance against the Italian occupiers and was transferred into the prisons of Durrës, Zvërnec (in Vlora), Kruja and from there to Messina, Italy, where he stayed for two years.

Throughout this period, Treska continued contribution to the country's literary life as a publicist, when his pen against the fascist invaders was felt particularly strong.

Being a member of the Presidium of the League of Writers and Artists of Albania, he submitted for publication novels of Maxim Gorky, "Malva" and "Birth of a Man", which were received warmly by readers.

The Nun) by Denis Diderot, Lucien Leuwen by Stendhal, Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, Colas Breugnon by Romain Rolland, Le Petit Chose by Alphonse Daudet, poems by Louis Aragon and Paul Éluard, etc.

[6] During the years 1957–1974, Misto Treska served as President of the Albanian Committee for Cultural and Friendly Relations with the Outside World.