Ali Aliu (literary scholar)

Ali Aliu (born April 1, 1934 in Krani near Resen , SFR Yugoslavia , today Macedonia ) is an Albanian-speaking Macedonian literary scholar .

Life

Ali Aliu studied Linguistics at the University of Skopje and Albanology at the University of Belgrade . From 1959 he worked for various Albanian-language newspapers. In 1974 he received his doctorate from the University of Pristina with a thesis on the Albanian writer Petro Marko . There he taught literary studies until he was expelled from the university in 1990 for political reasons. He later taught at the private South East European University in Tetovo . At times he was a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo .

He is a member of the Academies of Sciences and Arts of Macedonia and Kosovo as well as the PEN of both countries.

Works

• Kërkime (Studies), 1971
• Don Kishoti te Shqiptarët ( Don Quixote among the Albanians), 1996; 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 9951413234
  • Macedonian-language edition: Don Kihot među Albancite , 2003, ISBN 9989323526
  • English version : Don Quixote among Albanians , 2011, ISBN 978-608-232-089-2
• Letërsia bashkëkohore shqiptare (Albanian literature of the present), 2001, ISBN 9992770031
• Kronika letrare (Chronicle of Literature), 2003, ISBN 9989-58-079-0
• (as editor, together with Gane Todorovski ): Skenderbeg 1405-1468 , 2005, ISBN 9989-101-63-9

literature

• Robert Elsie, Historical Dictionary of Kosovo , 2nd ed. 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7231-8 , p. 27

Web links

• Short biography on the homepage of the Macedonian PEN (Macedonian, with picture)
• Short biography on the homepage of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo (in Albanian, with picture)