Mirko Gashi
Appearance
Mirko Gashi (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирко Гаши, romanized: Mirko Gaši; 2 January 1939 – July 1995)[1] was an Albanian writer. Born in Kralje, he studied journalism in Belgrade and worked as a journalist in Flaka e vëllazërimit in Skopje and in Radio Prishtina. He wrote poetry during the 1980s, producing collections Gjarpëri i shtëpise (The House Snake) (1980); Arbor vitae (The Tree of Life) (1988); and Plagë uji, (Water Wound) (1990). Gashi translated literature from Kosovo Albanian authors into Serbo-Croatian. In late years, he suffered from depression and alcoholism, which ended in his death in July 1995.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ When Mirko Gashi renounced Serbia's rewards and gratitude
- ^ "Mirko GASHI". Albanian Literature.net. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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- Yugoslav writers
- 20th-century Albanian male writers
- Albanian journalists
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- University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni
- People from Kraljevo
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- Albanian translators
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- Albanian–Serbian translators
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