Rexhep Qosja, an Albanian writer and politician, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 89.
He was a novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic and professor at the University of Prishtina. Qosja was a prolific literary critic and literary historian of Albanian literature, and was the first Doctor of Philological Sciences in Kosovo.
He was also known for his 1974 novel “Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes,” which was translated into multiple languages, and for authoring anthologies and scholarly monographs, including a three-volume history of Albanian literature in the Romantic period.
Rexhep Qosja, 89, Albanian writer and politician.