Petrit Ymeri is the executive director of the Dituria publishing house, founded in May 1991. For several years, he was a literature teacher in high school and later a lecturer in foreign literature at the University of Tirana. Until 1991, he was a cultural journalist for the Albanian Radiotelevision and later the head of the editorial sector of the 8 November publishing house. From 2003 to 2014, Petrit Ymeri was a member of the Board of Directors of the Albanian Radiotelevision. In 1992, he was the founding member of the Association of Albanian Publishers and has been the President of the Association for several years now. He was the president of the Albanian jury for the European Prize for Literature in 2014 and 2017.
