Rexhep Qosja Explained

Rexhep Qosja
Birth Date:25 June 1936
Birth Place:Vusanje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Occupation:Novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic, politician
Nationality:Albanian
Period:1967–present
Movement:Postmodern literature
Notableworks:Death comes to me from such eyes (1974)
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Rexhep Qosja (born 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rexhep Qosja - Biografia. Akademia e Shkencave dhe e Arteve e Kosovës. 26 June 2012.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Fnbw1wsacSAC&dq=Rexhep+Qosja&pg=PA147 Historical dictionary of Kosova by Robert Elsie, p. 147-148