Ledia Xhoga

Albanian-American fiction writer and playwright, born and raised in Tirana and later based in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA in fiction at Texas State University. Her debut novel, Misinterpretation, first appeared in the United States in 2024 and in Britain in 2025. It follows an Albanian interpreter in New York whose involvement in her clients’ lives unsettles her own. The book won the Hornblower Award for a first book, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

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