Ernest Koliqi
Ernest Koliqi was born in the year 1903 and he died in the year 1975. He was an Albanian-Italian poet, prose writer and a dramatist. He wa...
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Ernest Koliqi was born in the year 1903 and he died in the year 1975. He
was an Albanian-Italian poet, prose writer and a dramatist. He was also a
literary student and a translator.
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Biography
Koliqi was born in
Shkodra, and it was there that he attended his first lessons in the Shkoder
Jesuit College, he relocated to Italy to study in Brescia and then at the
University of Padua. He became knowledgeable in the folk history of his
country, Albania. He started writing pseudonyms like Hilushi, Hilush Vilza
and Borizani. In the 1920s and in the
1930s, he founded the leading magazines in the country, like the Illyria magazine, and other magazines
that covered geography and culture in Albania. He was the minister of education
in the country at the time of the Albanian Kingdom at the time of the World War
II, which was when he sent 200 teachers to open up Albanian Schools in Kosovo.
Many of the literary
works he did as a writer were banned, though he possessed political links in
the country and they is one of the reasons why they were banned for this very
reasons of the political views he had. He was creative in prose and along with
Mitrush Kutel, they are seen as the founder of contemporary prose in the
country. He translated the works of Italian great poets into the language of
the country; Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso,
Giuseppe Parini, Vincenzo Monti, and Ugo Foscolo. He brought out the unique
spirituality to the literature of the country with the use of his books like Hija e Maleve, Tregtar flamujsh and Pasqyrat e Narçizit.
He died in Rome in the year 1975.
Works
Ø Skanderbeg's Call (Albanian: Kushtrimi i Skanderbeut),
(1924)
Ø The Shadow of the Mountains
(Albanian: Hija e maleve) (1929),
Ø The Traces of the Seasons
(Albanian: Gjurmat e stinëve) (1933),
Ø Flags' Merchant (Albanian: Tregtar flamujsh)
(1935)
Ø The Mirrors of Narcissus
(Albanian: Pasqyrat e Narçizit) (1936),
Ø Symphony of the Eagles (Albanian:
Symfonia e shqypeve)
(1936).
Ø The Albanian Popular Epic
(Albanian: Epika popullore shqiptare), PhD thesis at the
University of Rome.(1937)
Ø The Fences of the Awakening
(Albanian: Kangjelet e Rilindjes) (1959),
Ø The Taste of the Leavened Bread
(Albanian: Shija e bukës mbrume) (1960),
Ø Albania (1965),
Other legacy
Ø Founder
of the magazine Ora e Maleve
(English: The Mountain's Fairy)- 1923
Ø Onwer
of the periodical Shejzat
(English: The Pleiades)- Rome
