Kadrush Radogoshi

Kadrush Radogoshi (born 1948 in Gjakova, Yugoslavia) is an Albanian poet, novelist, play-writer, and literary critic from Kosovo.[1] He is a dissident who opposed the revocation of the autonomy of Kosovo from the Milosevic's regime, consequently being arrested and imprisoned.[2] Radogoshi served as President of Writers' Union of Kosovo. In 2010 he settled in Canada.

Life

He was born in Gjakova. He completed the primary school, the secondary school and the Teachers' College in Gjakova, whereas the Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina, where he also completed the postgraduate studies and received the Master of Arts in literature. From 1979 to 1986, he edited literary magazine Paths and edited several books of different literary genres.[3]

Kadrush Radogoshi was president of Literary Club "Gjon Nikollë Kazazi" in Gjakova from 1992 to 1997. He worked as a teacher from 1969 to 1981, where after he was repeatedly imprisoned under section 133 of the Yugoslav criminal law forbidding freedom of speech. When Kosovo's nascent autonomy was revoked by Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, Radogoshi was one of 237 Albanian intellectuals arrested and imprisoned, and for 18 years, unable to practice his occupation, he was unemployed and politically persecuted.

After the Kosovo War (1998–99), Radogoshi worked as a professor of literature, until 2010, when he immigrated to Canada with his family. During this time he served as president (2007–09) and vice-president (2005–07) of the Union of Writers of Kosovo.

Work

Kadrush Radogoshi has published poems, prose (short stories and novels), a drama, essays, and literary criticism.

References

  1. ↑ Nebil Duraku; Ibrahim Rugova; Shoqata e Shkrimtarëvë të Kosovës (1984). Shkrimtarët e Kosovës '43-'83. Agjenica e Autorëve të Kosovës. p. 234.
  2. ↑ Sabile Kecmezi-Basha (2009). Te burgosurit politike shqiptare ne Kosove 1945-1990 - Gjate viteve 1945-1990 ne ish-Jugosllavi shqiptaret kaluan ne burgje 666 shekuj, 72 vjet e 7 muaj burgim. Logos-A. p. 1989. ISBN 978-9989-58-322-3.
  3. ↑ Ars Poetica (2009). "Nje dritare qe sjell imazhin e lartesi-largesive" [A window which brings the image of hights-distances]. Ars Poetica. Lulu.com (20-21 (June-July)): 113. ISBN 978-1-304-49749-9.

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