Chaplain Burović

Kaplan Burović , also Kaplan Resuli-Burovich ( Cyrillic  Каплан Буровић , Albanian  Kaplan Resulli or Kaplan Resulbegoviq ; born August 8, 1934 in Ulcinj , Montenegro ), is a writer, journalist and albanologist .

Life

Burović graduated from the Higher Pedagogical College in Skopje in 1958 . From 1953 to 1955 he was editor-in-chief of Iskra magazine in Belgrade and editor of Flaka e Vllaznimit magazine in Skopje. From 1956 to 1959 he worked as a teacher in Tetovo . In 1959 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment in Tetovo for "political agitation", which he served in Idrizovo prison. After his release, he fled to Albania to emigrate to the USSR, but as diplomatic relations between the two countries deteriorated, he was not allowed to enter the USSR.

From 1963 to 1970 Burović was a teacher of history and literature in Lushnja and also worked as a writer. In 1965 the Association of Albanian Writers praised Burović's novel Tradhtia (Treason) as "the best Albanian-language novel of the post-war period"; Burović was made an honorary member of the Albanian Academy. In 1969 he graduated from the University of Tirana with a degree in Albanian language and literature, with a thesis on the Ulcinj dialect.

In 1970 he was sentenced to 43 years in prison in Albania for illicit gun possession and "anti-government propaganda" and was imprisoned in Burrel Prison. In 1990 he was released early and received asylum in Switzerland with the support of Amnesty International . Since then he has lived and published in Geneva.

Burović is the author of several novels, collections of poems, academic papers and polemical writings in Albanian, Serbian (Serbo-Croatian) and French. He is editor of the Albanian-language cultural magazine Ylberi (Rainbow) and the Serbian-language magazine Ulcinj . He is a member of the Association of Writers of Albania and Montenegro.

Burović is considered a bitter critic of the Enver Hoxha regime. Along with Fatos Lubonja , Ardian Vehbiu and Ardian Klosi, he is one of the most important dissidents in Albania. Because of the extent of his sentence, he considers himself “the most severely punished political prisoner in the Balkans”. With his many years of work on the "unmasking of Albanian nationalistic historical myths" and his polemics with Albanian scholars and writers, he has created numerous enemies: He has survived three murder attempts, two in Albania and one in Geneva. According to Burović, there is no Albanian culture outside of Albania. He sees Kosovo as part of Serbia.

In 1992 he was rehabilitated in Albania. Burović is also famous and revered in Serbia. In 1995 Serbian television made a documentary about him ("Mandela Albanije").

Burović is married for the second time and has three children.

Works (selection)

• Mornareva udovica . Pristina 1956.
• Shkěnijat e para . Ligne des écrivains de Kosovo, Pristina 1956.
• Fanola . Pristina 1958.
• Tradhtia . Naim Frashëri, Tirana 1965.
• Ushtima e Korabit . Naim Frashëri, Tirana 1968.
• E folmja e ulqinit . Diploma thesis, Univ. Tirana 1969.
• Le vrai visage d' Ismail Kadare . Balkans, Geneva 1992.
• Ilirët dhe Shqiptarët . Balkans, Geneva 1994.
• Porijeklo Albanaca . Balkans, Geneva 1994.
• Fishta dhe të tjerë . Naum Veqilharxhi, Tirana 2001.
• Njegoš i Albanci: studije . OMPA, Podgorica 2002.
• Adem Demaçi . Balkans, Geneva 2002.
• Resulbegoviqët dhe shqiptarët . Balkans, Geneva 2003.

literature

• Odhise K. Grillo: Lexicon shkrimtarët shqiptarë per fëmijë 1872–1995 . Botimet Enciklopedike, Tiranë 1997.
• Milena Milanović: Srbi u svetu - ko je ko 1996/99: biografski leksikon . Filoz. Faculty, Beograd [u. a.] 1999.

Web links

• Entry about Kaplan Burović in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Interview in Vest (English) of 25 February 2003 ( Memento July 21, 2013 Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albanologu Resuli: Kosova t'i kthehet Serbisë. Shqiptarët s'janë autoktonë. In: Telegraf.al. June 2, 2015, Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Albanian).