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{{DEFAULTSORT:Radogoshi, Kadrush 1948 births Living people Writers from Gjakova Kosovo Albanians Yugoslav people of Albanian descent Kosovan educators Kosovan expatriates in Canada University of Pristina alumni Albanian dissidents Albanian magazine editors Yugoslav dissidents Kosovan dissidents Prisoners and detainees of Yugoslavia Kosovan literary critics Kosovan poets Albanian-language writers Albanian-language poets 20th-century Albanian poets 21st-century Albanian poets 21st-century Albanian writers Albanian dramatists and playwrights Albanian literary critics 20th-century Albanian novelists 21st-century novelists 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 21st-century dramatists and playwrights Albanian memoirists 20th-century memoirists Kosovan non-fiction writers Kosovan dramatists and playwrights Kosovan novelists 20th-century Albanian male writers 21st-century Albanian male writers
Kadrush Radogoshi (born 1948 in Gjakova
Gjakova or Đakovica, ) and Đakovica ( sr-Cyrl, Ђаковица, ) is the sixth largest city of Kosovo and seat of the Gjakova Municipality and the District of Gjakova, Gjakova District. According to the 2024 census, the municipality of Gjakov ...
, Kosova
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) is an Albanian
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poet, novelist, play-writer, and literary critic from Kosovo
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. He is a dissident
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who opposed the revocation of the autonomy of Kosovo from the Milosevic's regime, consequently being arrested and imprisoned. Radogoshi served as President of Writers' Union of Kosovo. In 2010, he settled in Canada
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.
Life
He was born in Gjakova. He completed the primary school, the secondary school and the Teachers' College in Gjakova, whereas the Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina, where he also completed the postgraduate studies and received theMaster of Arts
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in literature.
From 1979 to 1986, he edited literary magazine ''Paths'' and edited several books of different literary genres.
Kadrush Radogoshi was president of Literary Club "Gjon Nikollë Kazazi" in Gjakova from 1992 to 1997. He worked as a teacher from 1969 to 1981, where after he was repeatedly imprisoned under section 133 of the Yugoslav criminal law forbidding freedom of speech. When Kosovo's nascent autonomy was revoked by Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, Radogoshi was one of 237 Albanian intellectuals arrested and imprisoned, and for 18 years, unable to practice his occupation, he was unemployed and politically persecuted.
After the Kosovo War
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(1998–99), Radogoshi worked as a professor of literature, until 2010, when he immigrated to Canada
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with his family. During this time he served as president (2007–09) and vice-president (2005–07) of the Union of Writers of Kosovo.
Work
Kadrush Radogoshi has published poems, prose (short stories and novels), a drama, essays, and literary criticism. *''Në mes të heshtjes e këngës'' (Between the silence and the song), poems, Pristina: "Rilindja", 1981. *''Në udhëkryq'' (On the crossroad), poems, Pristina: "Rilindja", 1984. *''Poetika e romanit bashkëkohor shqiptar...'' (The poetics of the Albanian contemporary novels...), literary criticism, Faculty of Philosophy of University of Pristina, 1985. *''Nekrologji për Sodomën'' (Necrology for Sodom), poems, Pristina: "ZERI", 1991, *''Jeta artistike e Ilir Shkretës'' (Artistic life of Ilir Shkreta), novel, Pristina: "Rilindja", 1993. *''Interpretime'' (Interpretations), literary criticism, Pristina: "Rilindja", 1993. *''Heraldika e pikëllimit'' (Heraldry of sorrow), poems, Pristina: "Rilindja", 1997. *''Homo Dardanicus'', novel, Pristina: "Rilindja", 2001. *''Adem Jashari dhe vdekja'' (Adem Jashari and death), drama, Pristina: "Rilindja", 2001. *''Nëpër universin letrar'' (Through the literary universe), literary criticism, Pristina: "Rilindja", 2003. *''Pikon çati e shpirtit'' (The roof of soul is leaking), poems, Pristina: Writers Union of Kosovo, 2004. *''Orfeu nga Vendenisi'' (Orpheus from Vendenis), poems, Pristina: Writers Union of Kosovo, 2005. *''Nëpër rrathët e ferrit serb'' (Through circles of the Serbian hell), memoirs, Pristina: Foundation for Literature, Art and Culture Generation ’81, 2000. *''Pikëllim i buzëqeshur'' (Smiling sorrow), poems, Pristina: "Buzuku", 2006. *''Semantika e bregut tjetër'' (Semantics of the other bank), literary criticism, Pristina: Writers Union of Kosovo, 2008. *''Çabrat antologjia - seancë e përshpirtshme'' (Chabrath anthology – a devout session), poems, Pristina: Writers Union of Kosovo, 2008. *''Seancë e përshpirtshme 2'' (A devout session 2), poems, (bilingual book: English and Albanian), Pristina: Writers Union of Kosovo, 2014 *''Laokooni (Laocoon)'', novel, Tirana, Toena, 2017 *''Orpheus’ Palimpsest'', poems in English, Tirana, Nacional, 2018 *''Palimpsest orfeik 2'', poems in Albanian, Tirana, Nacional, 2018References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVtkLc0JLjI (Promotion of the Kadrush’ Radogoshi poetry books “Orpheus Palimpsest” and “Orpheus Palimpsest 2”External links
culturalrites.com Caravaggio’s Dagger
World Poetry
WriterGuild - 2014 Borderlines Writers Circle
Too many books in the kitchen - Interview: Kadrush Radogoshi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Radogoshi, Kadrush 1948 births Living people Writers from Gjakova Kosovo Albanians Yugoslav people of Albanian descent Kosovan educators Kosovan expatriates in Canada University of Pristina alumni Albanian dissidents Albanian magazine editors Yugoslav dissidents Kosovan dissidents Prisoners and detainees of Yugoslavia Kosovan literary critics Kosovan poets Albanian-language writers Albanian-language poets 20th-century Albanian poets 21st-century Albanian poets 21st-century Albanian writers Albanian dramatists and playwrights Albanian literary critics 20th-century Albanian novelists 21st-century novelists 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 21st-century dramatists and playwrights Albanian memoirists 20th-century memoirists Kosovan non-fiction writers Kosovan dramatists and playwrights Kosovan novelists 20th-century Albanian male writers 21st-century Albanian male writers