Ervina Halili (b. 1986) is a surrealist poet from Kosovo. A child of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, she wrote her first poem, “Crowd 97,” at age eleven amid political upheaval and mass protests in which students and professors called for the restoration of Albanian-language education under an increasingly repressive regime. Her third book Amuletë (Amulet, 2015)—following Vinidra (2004) and Trëndafili i heshtjes (Rose of Silence, 2008)—was awarded the country’s prestigious Ali Podrimja Literary Prize for best work of poetry in 2015. Ervina is the founder of a virtual archive/museum that features journalists’ contributions to the influential Kosovo Albanian newspaper Rilindja (1945-1991). She has been a writer-in-residence at several institutions across Europe, most recently at Graz’s International Writers’ House and Q21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. Her most recent book, Gjumi i Oktapodit (Octopus’ Slumber, 2016), was translated into German in a bilingual edition.