Agim VINCA
Biography Poetry Agim VINCA Agim Vinca (b. 1947) is a leading poetry critic and poet from Veleshta near Struga in Macedonia whose popular lyrical verse is firmly anchored in the soil of his place of birth and of his childhood. He finished school in Struga on Lake Ohrid and studied Albanian language and literature at […]
Azem SHKRELI
Biography Poetry Azem SHKRELI Azem Shkreli (1938-1997) has been described as a poet of profound ideas and critical judgments. He was born in the Rugova mountains near Peja and became head of Kosova Film Studios in Prishtina. Shkreli is an intellectual poet who, though highly expressive, is by no means verbose. His urban perception […]
Anton PASHKU
Biography Prose Anton PASHKU Anton Pashku (1938-1995) was born in Grazhdanik near Prizren of a peasant family from the Has Mountains. He worked as a journalist in Prishtina for some time and thereafter edited prose and drama for the Rilindja Publishing Company there. His experimental short stories, novels and plays, showing affinities with the […]
Kim MEHMETI
Biography Prose Kim MEHMETI Kim Mehmeti (b. 1955) is a leading and innovative prose writer from the Albanian community in Macedonia. He was born in Gërçec near Skopje, where he now lives and works. He is the author of eleven volumes of prose, including Lulehëna (Moon Flower), Peja 1997, Fshati i fëmijve të mallkuar (The Village of the […]
Abdullah KONUSHEVCI
Biography Poetry Abdullah KONUSHEVCI Abdullah Konushevci (b. 1958) was born and raised in Prishtina, studied literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for many years as a journalist for the Kosova daily newspaper Rilindja. He is noted not only as a leading Kosova poet, but also for his essays and writings on Albanian […]
Fahredin GUNGA
Biography Poetry Fahredin GUNGA The enthusiasm characteristic of Kosova poetry of the sixties can be seen in the early works of Fahredin Gunga (1936-1997) who was born in Mitrovica. Gunga studied in Belgrade and worked for Rilindja Publishing Company in Prishtina. His verse production has shown him to be a poet of searching, though […]
Rrahman DEDAJ
Biography Poetry Rrahman DEDAJ Rrahman Dedaj (b. 1939) is a poet in constant evolution and one who has contributed substantially to the modernization of Albanian verse in Kosova. Dedaj was born near Podujeva and studied Albanian language and literature in Prishtina before becoming executive editor of Rilindja Publishing Company. He moved to London during the […]
Flora BROVINA
Biography Poetry Flora BROVINA Flora Brovina (b. 1949), poet, pediatrician and women’s rights activist, was born in the town of Skënderaj in the Drenica valley of Kosova. She was raised in Prishtina where she went to school and began studying medicine. After finishing her university studies in Zagreb, where she specialized in pediatrics, she returned […]
Sali BASHOTA
Biography Poetry Sali BASHOTA Sali Bashota was born on 31 August 1959 in Çaravik (Qarrat) in the municipality of Klina in Kosova. He studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Prishtina where he later taught literature. He is editor-in-chief of the literary periodical Jeta e re (New Life) and in 2003 was appointed director […]
Linditë AHMETI
Biography Poetry Linditë AHMETI Linditë Ahmeti was born in Prizren in 1973 and lives in Skopje. Her first poetry collection, Mjedra dhe bluz (Raspberries and the Blues), Skopje 1993, was well received. Ahmeti, among the best-known female poets of the Albanians in Macedonia, is the author of four volumes of verse. Linditë AHMETI A Raspberry […]