Ernest Koliqi

Died in 1975

Ernest Koliqi was born on 20 May 1903 in Shkodra. A pupil of the Jesuits of his town, he was sent to Italy, to the Arici college in Brescia. On his return, he founded a weekly in 1923, then left the country in 1924 for political reasons and spent the following years in Yugoslavia. Lecturer in Albanian at Padua, he completed there in 1937 a study of the Albanian popular epic, obtained in 1939 the chair of Albanian at Rome and became minister of Public Education; he sent two hundred teachers to open schools in Kosovo. Having remained in Italy after the war, he died in Rome in 1975.

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Short storiesHija e maleveErnest Koliqi · 1929not translated into EnglishLiterature