Esad Nekuli

Esad Mekuli was born on the 17^th December 1916 in Plav, the Kingdom of Montenegro; he died on the 6^th August 1993, Pristina, FR Yugoslavia. He was a poet and a student from Albania. He was the first president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo. Robert Elsie saw him as the father of the contemporary Albanian poetry in Yugoslavia and he left his influence in the heart of the country.

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Biography

After he had completed his primary education, Mekuli studied in Pec, graduating in the year 1936. He then registered at the University of Belgrade, in the faculty of Veterinary medicine, and it was there that he met contact with Marxist circle and was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War for the first political activity of his life and he was arrested in the year 1940. He was released in April of the following year after the declaration of amnesty by the government of the day. He started working in Pec as a veterinarian and was again arrested by the Italian army in the year 1942 as he was suspected of havoing links with the resistance movement. When he was released, he went on to join the partisan forces in the year 1943 and he became the editor of an illegal newspaper called "Lirija".

After the World War II, he continued to work as a veterinarian and also as an editor of an illegal newspaper in the country called Rilindja. In the year 1949, he founded the literary magazine known as Jeta e Re and he remained the chief editor until the year 1971. He wrote for and cooperated with several newspapers in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. 

He died in Pristina on the 6^th August 1993.

Mekuli was married to Sehadete Mekuli, a public figure, gynechologist and an inspirer of the character Teuta Shkreli in Ismail Kadare’s novel called Krushqit jane te ngrire.

Works

Ø  Për ty (For You) – Pristina, (1955)

Ø  Dita e re (New Day) – Pristina, 1966)

Ø  Avsha Ada (Avsha Ada) – (1971)

Ø  Vjersha (Poetries)– (1973)

Ø  Brigjet (Shores)– (1981)

Ø  Rini e kuqe (Red Youth) – Pristina, (1984)

Ø  Në mes të dashurisë dhe urrejtjes (Between love and hate) – Tiranë, (1986)

Ø  Dita që nuk shuhet (The day which doesn't vanish) – Pristina, (1989)