Mirko GASHI
BIOGRAPHY
Mirko Gashi (1939-1995), born in Kraljevo in Serbia, attended
elementary school in Presheva and secondary school in Gjilan.
He studied journalism in Belgrade and worked subsequently as
a reporter for the newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit
(Flame of Brotherhood) in Skopje and for Radio Prishtina. He
was much admired in the 1980s for his verse, which was compiled
in particular in the collections: Gjarpëri i shtëpise,
Prishtina 1980 (The House Snake); Arbor vitae, Prishtina
1988 (The Tree of Life); and Plagë uji, Prishtina
1990 (Water Wound). He also translated much Kosova Albanian literature
into BCS (Serbo-Croatian). Always a rebel, and suffering increasingly
from depression in later years, Gashi turned to alcohol for salvation
and died of it in July 1995. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Kosova, Macedonia and Montenegro (late 20th
- 21st centuries)
