Teki Dervishi

Teki Dervishi (16 January 1943 — 29 June 2011) was an Albanian poet, novelist, journalist and playwright.

Early life and career Dervishi was born in Gjakova, in the region disputed between Yugoslavia and Axis-occupied Albania, now part of Kosovo.

After completing his primary education, he was imprisoned for several years at Goli otok, at the age of 17. Dervishi was one of the youngest Albanian prisoners at Goli Otok. Dervishi finished secondary school in Peja and studied at the University of Pristina.

Besides Dervishi's literary activities, he also worked as a journalist. He worked for the Albanian-language newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit (The Flame of Fraternity) in Skopje,

Later life On 29 March 1999, at the outbreak of the NATO intervention in the Kosovo War, Dervishi was reported to have been assassinated. In July of that year, it was confirmed that he was alive.

Literary works Novels: Pirgu i Lartë (The High Tower), 1972 Padrona, 1973 Skedarët (The Catalogues), 1974 Herezia e Dervish Mallutës (The Heresy of Dervish Malluta), 1981 Palimpsest për Dush Kusarin (Palimpsest For Dush Kusari), 1993

Verse: Nimfa (The Nymph), 1970 Shtëpia e Sëmurë (The Sick House), 1978 Thashë (I Said), 1981

Theatre plays: Pranvera e Librave (The Springtime of Books), 1990 Zhvarrimi i Pjetër Bogdanit (The Exhumation of Pjetër Bogdani), 1990 Kufiri me atdhe (The Border with the Fatherland), 1996 Vojceku (Wozzeck), 1996

Notes and references References:

by Robert Elsie, The Guardian, Saturday Review, April 3, 1999, page 3.