This morning, tributes were held in the Assembly of Kosovo in honor of the life and work of academician Rexhep Qosja, who passed away yesterday at the age of 89.
The acting president of Kosovo, Albulena Haxhiu, writes in the book of mourning, open to academician, Rexhep Qosja.
Academician Rexhep Qosja was born in 1936 in Vuthaj, Montenegro. He completed the first four grades of primary school in Vuthaj, and his secondary school in Guci. In 1959 he graduated from the Normal School in Prishtina, while in 1960 he enrolled in the Albanian Language and Literature Department of the Philosophical Faculty of Prishtina, where he graduated in 1964.
In 1967, he was accepted as an assistant at the Albanian Institute of Prishtina and during 1967/68 he specialized in the science of literature in third degree studies at the Philological Faculty of the University of Belgrade.
In 1969, he was elected a scientific associate of the Albanological Institute of Pristina. In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis on the life and creativity of Asdren. After his doctorate, in 1972, he was elected, once a senior associate and then a scientific advisor at the Albanian Institute, as well as an extraordinary professor and an ordinary professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina.
He was director of the Albanological Institute from 1972 to 1981, long-term head of the Department of Literature and the Albanian Language of the Faculty of Philosophy and, during the years 1974-1975, external editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Jeta e Re.
He is the author of more than thirty books with studies on literature and literary criticism, artistic prose, stories, novels and dramas, journalism and polemical writings. He has published many reviews, reviews, articles, essays, essays and studies in scientific and literary magazines, dealing in them with special issues of Albanian literature and literary creativity in general. Some of his works and works have been translated into other languages.
For his scientific and literary creativity, he has been awarded with: The award of the city of Pristina, in 1968; with the Provincial Award of December in 1969; with two awards of the State of Kosovo, in 1972 and 1974 and with the Award of the Republic of Serbia – “July 7”, in 1975, with the “Pjeter Bogdani” Award, 2010 for the novel “Nobody’s Son”, etc.
It is also involved in political activity; in the period 1998-2000 he led a political party in Kosovo. In 2000, the president of the Republic of Albania gave him the “Honour of the Nation” award.
