immediately banned. When he was lastly arrested, in his investigation file the authorities labelled his literary work as "amoral". After the fall of communism he was proclaimed a dissident based on a letter he supposedly sent to Enver Hoxha in 1953, where he supposedly criticized the method of socialist realism. However the veracity of this claim has been called into question and the letter has been called a fabrication. Albanian writer Ismail Kadare expressed indignation at the attempt of portraying a member of the secret police Sigurimi, as a dissident. According to the writer, part of the blame for spreading the myth of Trebeshina's dissidence is attributed to the albanologist Robert Elsie. In the novel Mekami, Trebeshina portrays Albanian national hero Skanderbeg as a horse thief and ethnic Albanians as cowards who offer their wives and daughters to the Turkish warriors who are portrayed as heroic. The Turks have the author's sympathy. He glorifies their virtues and their victories. The Turk is presented as noble and peaceful in peace and brave in war against the "dirty" and "treacherous" Albanians. The book is filled with an insulting and derogatory tone towards Albanians and their history. The book has been compared to Hitler's Mein Kampf. Translations His novel Odin Mondvalsen was translated into German by Hans-Joachim Lanksch, published in Klagenfurt in 1994. His memoirs-essays Dafinat e thara (The dry laurels) were translated in Italian () by Edmond Çali, published in Rome in 2007. Furthermore his novel Pylli - Evandri dhe Nausika (; ) was translated in French by Anne-Marie Autissier and published by L’Espace d’un Instant editions in 2011. Oeuvre He was one of the first writers to write an elegy about Stalin's death. In his poem about Stalin, Trebeshina reinforces the myth of Stalin as Prometheus and father of the world, the main myths of communist propaganda, and points out with admiration that both Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha and Mehmet Shehu are crying for Stalin. Thirty years separate his last publication during the communist regime, the poetry collection Artani dhe Min'ja ose hijet e fundit të maleve (Artani and Minja or the Last Shadows of the Mountains, 1961), with the post-Communist volume of stories Stina e Stinëve (The Season of the Seasons, 1991). His first post-Communist work published came out in Prishtina by the intervention of Martin Camaj. Most of his work was published after the fall of Communism, during the