Musa Ramadani (born 21 May 1944) is a
Kosovan novelist and poet of
Albanian
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extraction.
Born in
Gjilan
Gjilan, or Gnjilane ( sr-cyr, Гњилане) is the eighth largest city in Kosovo and seat of Gjilan Municipality and Gjilan District.
Name
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in what was then
Yugoslavia
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, Ramadani worked as a journalist for
Rilindja
The Albanian National Awakening ( sq, Rilindja or ), commonly known as the Albanian Renaissance or Albanian Revival, is a period throughout the 19th and 20th century of a cultural, political and social movement in the Albanian history where the ...
. In 1969 he decided to focus on writing literature and since then he has published many volumes of verse, stories and novels. Ramadani is consideredone of the leading Albanian prose writers of Kosovo in the last three decades of the 20th century.
In 2017 he was awarded the
Kadare Prize for his novel ''The Prophet from Prague''
Works
Novels
* ''Romani pa kornizë'' (1975)
* ''Zezona'' (1978)
* ''Ligatina'' (1983)
* ''Vrapuesja e Prizrenit'' (1995)
* ''Antiprocesioni'' (1997)
* ''Profeti nga Praga'' (2017)
Story collections
* ''Fluroma''
* ''Satana ma vodhi gurin e urtisë''
* ''Inamor: 55'' (2000)
References
Sources
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1944 births
Living people
Albanian novelists