Mirko Gashi

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Mirko Gashi (1939-1995), was an Albanian writer of the 20th century. He was born in Kraljevo in Serbia, attended elementary school in Presheva and secondary school in Gjilan.

He studied journalism in Belgrade and worked subsequently as a reporter for the newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit (Flame of Brotherhood) in Skopje, Macedonia and for Radio Prishtina, Kosovo.

He was much admired in the 1980s for his verse, which was compiled in particular in the collections: Gjarpëri i shtëpise, Priština 1980 (The House Snake); Arbor vitae, Priština 1988 (The Tree of Life); and Plagë uji, Priština 1990 (Water Wound). He also translated much Kosovar Albanian literature into BCS (Serbo-Croatian).

Always a rebel, and suffering increasingly from depression in later years, Gashi turned to alcohol for salvation and died of it in July 1995.