<p><strong><em>If I Were a Boy</em></strong><span> (</span>Albanian<span>: </span><em>Sikur t''isha djal¿em><span>) is an </span>Albanian<span> </span>epistolary novel<span> written by </span>Haki St¿illi<span> in 1936. Written mostly in a form of diary entries it documents the struggle of the young female protagonist Dija to adjust in an Albanian </span>patriarchal society<span>, which was common during the time the novel was written in. Originally the novel was written in </span>Gheg dialect<span>. This publication is a translation into modern Albanian by Dritan Ki¿</span></p>