Petro Marko House

About The Petro Marko House

The Petro Marko House is a house in Dhermi where the famous Albanian writer Petro Marko was born on November 25th 1913 and were he lived. In front of the house you can see a statue of the writer. Marko was considered a writer of the generation of socialist literature of the 1930s. His most famous book is titled Hasta La Vista, in which he shares his experiences as a voluteer of the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. Marko died in 1991 at the age of 78.