Besim Bokshi

Besim Bokshi ( Serbo-Croatian  Бесим Бокси / Besim Bokši ; born November 12, 1930 in Đakovica , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † August 16, 2014 ) was a Kosovar-Albanian poet and linguist. In his home country Kosovo he was also active as a politician.

Life

Since his family moved to Albania , Besim Bokshi grew up in Vlora and Tirana and did not return to his hometown Gjakova until 1945 . He studied at the University of Belgrade and received his doctorate in 1974 from the University of Pristina , where he has been a lecturer in linguistics ever since. After 1966 he published two volumes of poetry. From 1996 he was a regular member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo .

Besim Bokshi was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo from the beginning of the 1990s , and from 1994 to 2000 he was party chairman.

Works

Volumes of poetry

• Në pritje . (Awaiting), 1966
• Hije të këputura . (Broken Shadows), 1996
• Poems Windreiter and Der tiefe Fluß in German translation, in: Literature and Criticism , vol. 1992, No. 267/268, p. 67f ( also online ) and biographical note ibid. P. 55

Scientific works

• (with Rexhep Qosja ): Rruga e formimit të fleksionit të sotëm nominal të shqipes. (Development of the formation of today's nominal inflection in Albanian ), 1980
• Prapavendosja e nyjës në gjuhët ballkanike. (The post position of the article in the Balkan languages ), 1984

literature

• Esad Mekuli , Bokši, Besim , in: Leksikon pisaca Jugoslavije (Lexicon of Writers of Yugoslavia), Volume 1, 1972
• Vehap Šita, Bokši, Besim , in: Jugoslovenski književni leksikon (Yugoslav Literary Lexicon ), 2nd edition 1984
• Robert Elsie , Dictionary of Albanian Literature , 1986, ISBN 0-313-25186-X
• Robert Elsie, Historical Dictionary of Kosova , 2004, ISBN 0-8108-5309-4 , p. 29

Web links

• Short biography on the AShAK homepage (Albanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There are contradicting information about the date of birth. November 12, 1930 is given on the AShAK homepage. Other data are: November 11, 1931 (Mekuli), November 12, 1931 (Šita), 1932 (Elsie 2004) and 1934 (Elsie 1986; literature and criticism).
2. ↑ koha.net (Albanian), accessed February 19, 2017
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.