| Rexhep Qosja | |
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| Born | (1936-06-25) 25 June 1936 (age 88) Vusanje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic, politician |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Period | 1967–present |
| Literary movement | Postmodern literature |
| Notable works | Death comes to me from such eyes (1974) |
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Rexhep Qosja (born 25 June 1936) is an Albanian writer, literary critic and Professor at University of Prishtina. He is a prolific literary critic and literary historian of Albanian literature. As a writer he is mostly known for his 1974 novel 'Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes', translated into multiple languages.
Life and career
He is the first Doctor of Philological Sciences in Kosovo. Qosja is the author of various anthologies and scholarly monographs, including a three-volume history of Albanian literature in the Romantic period. He is also the author of the novel Vdekja më vjen prej syve të tillë (Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes, Pristina, 1974), translated into French, Italian, Greek, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Serbian. Qosja has written books outlining the history of the Albanian people in the Balkans. Qosja was a figure in peace talks to end the Kosovo War of 1999.
Novels
- Death comes to me from such eyes (1974)
- One Love and Seven Sins (2003)
- The Night is Our Day (2007)
- No one’s sons (2010)
- The Secrets Revealed (2020)
Sources
- Ag Apolloni, Parabola postmoderne, 2010
- Robert Elsie, Historia e letërsisë shqiptare, 2001.
References
- "Rexhep Qosja - Biografia". Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
- Historical dictionary of Kosova by Robert Elsie, p. 147-148
External links
- Regular members of ASHAK(Kosovo
- Rexhep Qasja "Shqip", Tirana
- interview given Blendi Fevziu Ismail Kadare in TV Klan
- R.Qoses interviews to Daily "Shqip", Tirana
- 1936 births
- Living people
- People from Plav, Montenegro
- Kosovan writers
- Albanian novelists
- Albanian literary critics
- University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni
- Kosovo Albanians
- Yugoslav people of Albanian descent
- Albanian albanologists
- Yugoslav writers
- 20th-century Albanian male writers
- Yugoslav literary critics
- Kosovan literary critics
- Members of the Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts