Ardian Klosi

Ardian Klosi was born on the 9^th July 1957; he died on the 26^th April 2012. He was a pubiscist, albanologist, a writer and a translator from Albania. He is also a social activist. He studied Albanian Literature in the University of Tirana and graduated in the year 1981 and got his Ph.D in Germany and comparative literature at the University of Innsbruck.

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Early Life and Family

Ardian Klosi was born in Tirana in the year 1957 to Klosi family; his family is originally from Mallakaster. His father was known with the name, Bilbil Klosi, he was the former minister of Justice from the year 1953 to the year 1966 and he was the secretary of the presidium of the national assembly of the country from the year 1966 to the year 1973. In the year 1981, Ardian got his degree in Albanian literature from the University of Tirana.

Life in Germany

He earned his doctorate degree in the year 1990. Klosi resided in Germany for the first 5 years of the post-communist era in his country, and it was there that he met and got married to the photographer called Jutta Benzenberg and they both had 2 daughters together.

Return to Albania.

Klosi went back to his country in the year 1998 and strongly engaged himself in the civil society events f the country as well as journalism in the country. After he had gone back to his country from Germany, he was made the general director o0f the radio Televizioni Shqiptar, the public broadcaster of the country, from the year 1998 to the year 1999. In the recent years, he was active in the defense of the environmental issues. He assisted the civil society causes and the cultural heritage of the country. Klosi was mainly active against the initiative of the government of the country for destroying the pyramid.

Bibliography

Klosi's activity is closely related to books and other publications:

• “Reflections” with Edi Rama
• "Albania, a Painful Awakening”
• "Quo Vadis, Albania" (Whither Goest Thou, Albania)
• "Albania, What can it Be in the Future”
• "Albanian Survival" in German
• a German-Albanian vocabulary, in cooperation with other authors in 1997

Klosi passed through Spartan

Death and Reactionbouts of depression and had tried to commit suicide twice, before he finaly killed himself by hanging in his own house. He committed suicide on the 26^th April 2012 after he had received treatment against the depression he suffered.

The death was seen as an irreplaceable loss for the family of Klosi and for the entire country by the [president of the country, Bamir Topi. Many more condolence messages were sent to the family by top members of the society, like the Albanian prime minister, Sali Berisha. He was buried at the public Sharra cemetery that is in Tirana conurbation.