Rexhep Qosja

Rexhep Qosja (25 June 1936 – 23 April 2026) was a Kosovo Albanian writer, literary critic and academic who was a professor at University of Pristina. He was a prolific literary critic and literary historian of Albanian literature. As a writer he is mostly known for his 1974 novel Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes, translated into multiple languages.

Life and career Qosja was the first Doctor of Philological Sciences in Kosovo.

He was the author of various anthologies and scholarly monographs, including a three-volume history of Albanian literature in the Romantic period. He was also the author of the novel Vdekja më vjen prej syve të tillë (Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes, Pristina, 1974), translated into French, Italian, Greek, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Serbian. Qosja wrote books outlining the history of the Albanian people in the Balkans. Qosja was a figure in peace talks to end the Kosovo War of 1999.

Qosja died on 23 April 2026, at the age of 89.

Novels Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes (1974) One Love and Seven Sins (2003) The Night Is Our Day (2007) No One's Sons (2010) The Secrets Revealed (2020)