Rexhep Qosja
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| Born | (1936-06-25) 25 June 1936 (age 88) Vusanje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic, politician |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Period | 1967–present |
| Literary movement | Postmodern literature |
| Notable works | 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.
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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