Musina Kokalari ( alb. Musine Kokalari ; 1917 - 1983 ) - Albanian writer and political activist. It was the founder of the Social Democratic Party of Albania in 1943. [one]
Kokalari Musina | |
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Date of Birth | February 10, 1917 |
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Date of death | August 14, 1983 (66 years) |
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Citizenship | Albania |
Occupation | , |
Biography
Born on February 10, 1917 in the city of Adana, Turkey, in a patriotic Albanian family originating from the city of Gjirokastra .
In 1920, the family moved to Albania, to Tirana . Here Musina and his brother Vesim studied at the school, where they acquired a taste for books and knowledge. Next to their home was a bookstore. In January 1938 she went to Rome to study literature at the University of La Sapienza , which she graduated in 1941, having defended a thesis on the works of the Albanian poet and prose writer Naim Frasheri . After staying in the eternal city, Musina returned to Albania, where she took up writing.
At the age of twenty-four, she published her first collection of ten children's fairy tales Siç me thotë nënua plakë in her native dialect of gyro-stroy places. This collection is considered the first piece of literature ever written and published by a woman in Albania. Three years later, despite the difficulties of the Second World War , Kokalari published a collection of stories and sketches of Sa u-tunt jeta in Tirana. Then came the third collection of her works Rreth vatrës (Tirana, 1944).
After the war, Kokalari opened her own bookstore. She was invited to become a member of the Albanian League of Writers and Artists, established on October 7, 1945, chaired by the writer Sejfulla Malëshova . At this time, Musine did not give rest to the shooting without trial of her both brothers on November 12, 1944 by the communist regime of Albania. During the repression, on January 17, 1946, she was arrested along with Sejfulla Malëshova and on July 2 of the same year she was sentenced to twenty years in prison by the military court of Tirana, as an enemy of the people. At the trial, she stated that it was not necessary to be a communist in order to love her country.
In 1964, after 18 years in the Burgu i Burrelit prison in Mati district, she was released under the constant supervision of the police after spending the next 19 years of her life in Reshen town, Mirdita district, where she had to work as a street cleaner. Musine was forbidden to write; she contracted cancer, but refused to be hospitalized until her death on August 14, 1983 .
Notes
- ↑ Musine Kokalari: Dashuria ime italiane (alb.) . Ikubinfo.com.