| Teki Dervishi | |
| Birth Date: | 1943 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Gjakova, disputed between Italy and Yugoslavia |
| Death Place: | Pristina, Kosovo |
| Occupation: | Poet, novelist, author, playwright |
| Alma Mater: | University of Pristina |
Teki Dervishi (16 January 1943 — 29 June 2011) was an Albanian poet, novelist, journalist and playwright.
Dervishi was born in Gjakova, in the region disputed between Yugoslavia and Axis-occupied Albania, now part of Kosovo.
After completing his primary education, he was imprisoned for several years at Goli otok, at the age of 17. Dervishi was one of the youngest Albanian prisoners at Goli otok.[1] Dervishi finished secondary school in Peja and studied at the University of Pristina.[2]
Besides Dervishi's literary activities, he also worked as a journalist. He worked for the Albanian-language newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit (The Flame of Fraternity) in Skopje,[2] and was later director and among the founders of the Albanian newspaper Bota sot.[1]
Dervishi also worked as the director of the National Theatre of Kosovo in the 2000s.[3]
On 29 March 1999, at the outbreak of the NATO intervention in the Kosovo War, Dervishi was reported to have been assassinated. In July of that year, it was confirmed that he was alive.[4]
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