Rexhep Qosja (born 25 June 1936) is an

Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...

n 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 Albanian literature stretches back to the Middle Ages and comprises those literary texts and works written in Albanian language, Albanian. It may also refer to literature written by Albanians in Albania, Kosovo and the Albanian diaspora particul ...

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'',

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, 1974), translated into French, Italian, Greek, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Serbian.Historical dictionary of Kosova by Robert Elsie, p. 147-148
/ref> Qosja has written books outlining the history of the Albanian people in the

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. 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

External links

Regular members of ASHAK

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Rexhep Qasja "Shqip"

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interview given Blendi Fevziu Ismail Kadare in TV Klan R.Qoses interviews to Daily "Shqip"
Tirana {{DEFAULTSORT:Qosja, Rexhep 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