Rexhep Qose's passing, the Kosovo Assembly holds a tribute in honor of his work!

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Rexhep Qose's passing, the Kosovo Assembly holds a tribute in honor of his
The Assembly of Kosovo

This morning, tributes were held at the Kosovo Assembly in honor of the life and work of academic Rexhep Qosja, who passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

The acting president of Kosovo, Albulena Haxhiu, writes in the book of mourning, opened for academic, Rexhep Qosja.

Academician Rexhep Qosja was born in 1936 in Vuthaj, Montenegro. He completed the first four grades of primary school in Vuthaj, and the semi-matrimonial school in Guci. In 1959 he graduated from the Normal School in Pristina, and in 1960 he enrolled in the Albanian Language and Literature Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina, where he graduated in 1964.

In 1967, he was accepted as an assistant at the Albanological Institute of Pristina and during 1967/68, he specialized in literary science in third-degree studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade.

In 1969 he was elected a scientific associate of the Albanological Institute of Prishtina. In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis on the life and creativity of Asdren.

After receiving his doctorate in 1972, he was elected, first as a senior associate and then as a scientific advisor at the Albanological Institute, as well as an associate professor and then a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina.

He was director of the Albanological Institute from 1972 to 1981, head of the Albanian Literature and Language Department of the Faculty of Philosophy for many years, and, during the years 1974-1975, external editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Jeta e Re.

He is the author of over thirty books of literary studies and literary criticism, artistic prose, stories, novels and dramas, journalism and polemical writings.

He has published many reviews, observations, articles, essays, treatises and studies in scientific and literary journals, addressing specific issues of Albanian literature and literary creativity in general. Some of his works have been translated into other languages.

For his scientific and literary creativity, he has been honored with: the Prishtina City Award in 1968; the December Provincial Award in 1969; two awards from the Kosovo State University, in 1972 and 1974, and the RS Award of Serbia – “7 July” in 1975; the “Pjetër Bogdani” Award in 2010 for the novel “Nobody’s Sons”, etc.

He has also been involved in political activities; in the period 1998-2000 he led a political party in Kosovo.

In 2000, the President of the Republic of Albania awarded him the "Honor of the Nation" award.


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