Skifter Këlliçi

Skifter Këlliçi (born January 17, 1938), is an Albanian fiction writer, screenwriter, sports journalist, and radio & TV personality.

He has been a successful screenwriter with movies such as Pas gjurmëve (English: Following the tracks), winner of the international Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, in 1979.

[2][3] Along with Anton Mazreku, and Ismet Bellova, Këlliçi is considered one of the most renowned sports commentators in the Albanian speaking world.

[4] Këlliçi has also been successful in creative and nonfiction writing, a field in which he has published more than 20 books, consisting of short stories, novels, as well as screenplays.

The later was the basis for Këlliçi's screenplay of the movie with the same title, which won the Prize of the President of the Italian Republic at the International Giffoni Film Festival, Italy in 1979,[1] and 'Shpërthimi' (English: The Explosion) (1983), on whose motives he also wrote the screenplay of the movie 'Fushë e blertë, fushë e kuqe' (English: Green field, red field)(1985).