Pran of Albania is a children's historical novel by Elizabeth Miller. Set in the early nineteenth century among the mountain tribes of northern Albania, it tells the story of a young girl Pran in a time of impending war. The novel, illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, was first published in 1929 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1930. [1]
After all her adventures, Pran who, as a fourteen-year-old girl and by tribal tradition, is old enough to be betrothed, is pledged by her father to a boy in another tribe. [2] To avoid the arranged marriage, she follows local custom in taking a vow to be a "sworn virgin" and to live as a man. [3]
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