{{Short description|Albanian writer (1936–2026)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Rexhep Qosja | image = Rexhep Qosja (cropped).jpg | caption = Qosja in 2010 | office = Representative in the Interim Administrative Council of Kosovo | term_start = 15 December 1999 | term_end = 4 March 2002 | alongside = Hashim Thaçi, Ibrahim Rugova and Rada Trajković | 1blankname = SRSG | 1namedata = Bernard Kouchner<br />Hans Hækkerup | predecessor = ''Office established'' | successor = ''Office abolished'' | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|6|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Vusanje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia {{small|(now Montenegro)}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2026|4|23|1936|6|25|df=y}} | death_place = Pristina, Kosovo | party = United Democratic Movement | alma_mater = University of Belgrade | occupation = Novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic, politician | module = {{Infobox writer|embed=yes |period = 1967–2026 |movement = Postmodern literature |notableworks = ''Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes'' (1974) |signature = Rexhep Qosja (nënshkrim).svg |signature_alt = Signature of Rexhep Qosja |signature_size = 85px }} }}
'''Rexhep Qosja''' (25 June 1936 – 23 April 2026) was an Albanian writer, literary critic and academic who was a professor at University of Pristina. He was a prolific literary critic and literary historian of Albanian literature. As a writer he is mostly known for his 1974 novel ''Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes'', translated into multiple languages.
==Life and career== Qosja was the first Doctor of Philological Sciences in Kosovo.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rexhep Qosja - Biografia|url=http://www.ashak.org/?cid=1,18,23|publisher=Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts|accessdate=26 June 2012}}</ref>
He was the author of various anthologies and scholarly monographs, including a three-volume history of Albanian literature in the Romantic period. He was also the author of the novel ''Vdekja më vjen prej syve të tillë'' (''Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes'', Pristina, 1974), translated into French, Italian, Greek, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Serbian.<ref name="Elsie">[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fnbw1wsacSAC&dq=Rexhep+Qosja&pg=PA147 Historical dictionary of Kosova by Robert Elsie, p. 147-148]</ref> Qosja wrote books outlining the history of the Albanian people in the Balkans. Qosja was a figure in peace talks to end the Kosovo War of 1999.
Qosja died on 23 April 2026, at the age of 89.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Akademiku Rexhep Qosja shuhet në moshën 89-vjeçare! Familja: S’do organizojmë ceremoni pritjeje, ishte dëshirë e tij |url=https://shqiptarja.com/lajm/shuhet-ne-moshen-89vjecare-akademiku-rexhep-qosja |access-date=23 April 2026 |website=Shqiptarja |language=sq}}</ref>
==Novels== * ''Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes'' (1974) * ''One Love and Seven Sins'' (2003) * ''The Night Is Our Day'' (2007) * ''No One's Sons'' (2010) * ''The Secrets Revealed'' (2020)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * Ag Apolloni, Parabola postmoderne, 2010 * Robert Elsie, Historia e letërsisë shqiptare, 2001.
==External links== * [http://www.ashak.org/?cid=1,24,36 Regular members of ASHAK](Kosovo * [http://www.gazetatema.net/web/2012/06/27/nata-jote-eshte-dita-jone-gudar/rexhep-qosja-3/ Rexhep Qasja "Shqip"], Tirana * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090411224111/http://www.gazeta-shqip.com/kerko.php R.Qoses interviews to Daily "Shqip"], Tirana *{{IMDb name| 0702699}} {{Sandžak Albanians}} {{Authority control}}
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