{"id":7392,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/adem-istrefi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","slug":"adem-istrefi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/adem-istrefi\/","title":{"rendered":"Adem Istrefi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Adem Istrefi, writer, died in Tirana. He was born in Strelle in Upper Peja, in 1942. After finishing primary school, at the age of 14, he escaped to Albania. After secondary education, he studied language and literature at the University of Tirana. For a long time he worked in the editorial office of the &#8220;Libri Shkollor&#8221; (&ldquo;School book&rdquo;) in Tirana, later editor in the &#8220;N&euml;ntori&#8221; (&ldquo;November&rdquo;) magazine. He wrote poetry and prose, but also dealt with criticism and literary journalism. He has published poetry books: &#8220;Net kosovare&#8221; (&ldquo;Kosovar nights&rdquo;)(1967), &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">M&euml;ngjesi i s&euml; nes&euml;rmes<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&#8221; (&ldquo;The morning of tomorrow&rdquo;)(1969), &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Dritaret e fjal&euml;s<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&#8221; (&ldquo;Windows of words&rdquo;) (1972), &#8220;Gjerdan lirie&#8221; (&ldquo;Freedom necklace&rdquo;)(1977), &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Nj&euml; zog midis meje dhe diellit<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&#8221; (&ldquo;A bird between me and the sun&rdquo;)( 1989), &#8220;Arti i vdekjes bukur&#8221; (&ldquo;The art of dying beautifully&rdquo;) (2007), etc.; then the novels: &#8220;<em>L&euml;shoma hisen e diellit<\/em>&#8221; (1984), &#8220;Lemeria&#8221; (&ldquo;The Fright&rdquo;) (1992), &#8220;Argat&euml;t e dreqit&#8221; (&ldquo;Damned workers&rdquo;)(1997), &#8220;Askundia&#8221; (&ldquo;Nowhere&rdquo;)(2004); the books of stories: &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">S&rsquo;mund t&rsquo;i lija pa fol&euml;<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&#8221; (&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t leave them without speaking&rdquo;)(1988) and &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Nganj&euml;her&euml; i b&euml;ja me sy vdekjes<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&#8221; (&ldquo;Sometimes I eyed death&rdquo;) (2004). <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Adem Istrefi)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kosovo &#8211; Vol. I <\/em>, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 698.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kultplus.com\/lajme\/vdes-shkrimtari-adem-istrefi\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">https:\/\/www.kultplus.com\/lajme\/vdes-shkrimtari-adem-istrefi<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adem Istrefi, a writer, passed away in Tirana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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