About Vangjel Koça
Lived 1900 – 1943. Vangjel Koça was a journalist, politician and translator.
Vangjel Koça (1900–1943) journalist, an Albanian ideologue of fascism, translator, publisher in the interwar period, better known with his nom de plume Vangjo Nirvana. Along with Ismet Toto, Branko Merxhani, Nebil Çika etc., he was one of the main representatives of the Neo-Albanianism (neo-shqiptarizma) school of thought in the 1930s.
He was born in Gjirokastër. He was a translator of Epictetus, Lucian and Descartes, and wrote articles under the playful pen name Vangjo Nirvana. Vangjel Koça became a leader of the Fascist Party after Albania’s invasion in 1939. He drowned in the Adriatic Sea, while trying to escape to Italy, in August 1943.
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Who was Vangjel Koça?
Albanian journalist
When was Vangjel Koça born?
Vangjel Koça was born in 1900 in Gjirokastër.
When did Vangjel Koça die?
Vangjel Koça died in 1943.
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Vangjel Koça was a journalist, politician and translator.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Vangjel Koça. https://biography.guide/vangjel-koca/
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