Musine Kokalari

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Musine Kokalari (before 1930)

Musine Kokalari (also Muhsine ; born February 10, 1917 in Adana , Vilâyet Adana , Ottoman Empire ; † August 14, 1983 in Rrëshen , People's Socialist Republic of Albania ) was an Albanian writer. She is considered to be the first woman who was able to publish a book in Albania.

Life

As the daughter of the Kokalari family from Gjirokastra , she moved to Albania in 1920 . To study literature, she went from 1938 to the University of La Sapienza in Rome and wrote her doctoral thesis on Naim Frashëri in 1941 . Then she returned to Albania.

She wrote down folk tales and wrote her first book, which was published in Tirana in 1941. This work is considered to be the first book by a woman in Albania. In 1944 she published a book of short stories and sketches and another collection of fairy tales.

Musine Kokalari (during her trial in 1946)

After the Second World War , on January 17, 1946, she was accused of being an "enemy of the people" and arrested. Before her arrest, she had written letters to the Allies asking that free elections and freedom of thought should be guaranteed in Albania. She received a twenty-year prison term and spent 18 years in Burrel Prison from the time of King Ahmet Zogu . In 1964 she was released. She was not allowed to write for the rest of her life and had to work in a labor camp in Rrëshen (today's Mirdita community ) for the rest of her life . Musine Kokalari developed cancer and worked as a street sweeper. She was even denied treatment in a hospital.

Appreciation

The social democrat Kokalari was posthumously proclaimed a "martyr of democracy" by Albanian President Sali Berisha . A school in the capital Tirana bears her name.

Works

Since their works were banned and destroyed, no more copies have survived today.

  • Siç me thotë nënua plakë (1941)
  • Rreth vatrës (1944)
  • Sa u tunt jeta ... (1944)

literature

  • Robert Elsie : Historical Dictionary of Albania . In: Historical dictionaries of Europe . No. 75 . Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, keyword Kokalari, Musine , p. 232 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Musine Kokalari - Albania. (No longer available online.) In: PEN International. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; accessed on December 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen-international.org
  2. ^ Robert Elsie : Historical Dictionary of Albania . In: Historical dictionaries of Europe . No. 75 . Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, keyword Kokalari, Musine , p. 232 f .
personal data
SURNAME Kokalari, musine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian writer and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Adana , Vilâyet Adana , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1983
Place of death Rrëshen , People's Socialist Republic of Albania