“Qosja manages to deal with essential issues of life and in this way to really raise its art and at the same time the art of its people to the high world level”
Robert Elsie: Rexhep Qosja is one of the most prominent and productive critics of the Balkans.
Frédéric Vitoux: A real discovery, this writer is great…How can we describe this novel (“Death comes to me from such eyes”? It is impossible to describe, it escapes any description or, which is the same thing, it is multiple… Wonderful story, all around, philosophical fantasy, yearning chronicle of a small town in Kosovo.
Tode Colak: Qosja manages to deal with essential issues of life and in this way to really raise his art and at the same time the art of his people to the high world level.
Ibrahim Rugova: (Rexhep Qosja) has often solved vital problems in literature.
Ismail Kadare: Rexhep Qosja is the greatest writer among Albanians who live outside the borders of the country, who make up more than half of the Albanian nation.
Ali Ali: (Qosje’s prose gives) the deepest and most complex treatment to date in our prose.
Dawn Vinca: Academician Rexhep Qosja is undoubtedly one of the greatest figures of Albanian literature and culture, but also one of the most influential personalities in social and political life not only in Kosovo, but also in Albania.
Sabri Hamiti: At the end of the sixties, Rexhep Qosja overturned Kadare’s “Wedding” and the method of socialist realism.
Evaluations over the years for academician Rexhep Qosjen
