Mark Krasniqi

Mark Krasniqi
Born October 19, 1920
Peja, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Occupation Ethnographer, Publicist, Poet, Politician
Nationality Albanian
Notable works

Lugu i Baranit 1983

Gjurme e Gjurmie 1974

Mark Krasniqi (Serbian: Марк Краснићи, Mark Krasnići) is a Kosovo Albanian ethnographer, publicist, writer, and translator. He was born on October 19, 1920 in Kokaj, near Peja, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He finished his elementary school in Peja in Serbian language and due to his Catholic background attended catholic high school in Prizren, one of the few Albanians between Croatians and Slovenes, finishing it in 1941. After high school, he studied literature in University of Padova, Italy and after the World War II he studied Geography and Ethnography in the University of Belgrade. Krasniqi published in Rilindja newspaper since 1945 in Prizren. After writing an article related to Marije Shllaku, he was accused of overpassing the nationalistic boundaries and his scholarship got cancelled.[1] Despite that, he graduated in 1950.[2]

After his graduation until the end of 1961 he worked in the Science Academy in Belgrade, in the Institute of Ethnography, being one of the few Albanians to get a membership in the Yugoslavian Academy of Science. From 1961 he is a professor in the University of Pristina; he is also a member of Science Academy of Kosovo.[2][3] He earned his PhD in the University of Ljubljana in 1960. He published various studies and scientific books on ethnography and geography as well as textbooks.[2] He was most widely known as a writer, especially for his poetry for children.

Krasniqi was a member of the Assembly of Kosovo during the legislatures of 2001-2004, 2004-2007, and 2007-2010 representing Albanian Demochristian Party of Kosovo, part of respectively LDK, LDK, and LDD parliamentary groups.[4] He has also served as President of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Dean at the Faculty of Law and Economics, President of Albanian Christian-Democratic Party (PSHDK), and First Head of the Association of Writers of Kosovo.[4]
Beside Albanian and Serbo-Croatian he is fluent in Italian.

Publications

Scientific studies

Textbooks

Publicistics

Poetry

Translations

As co-translator

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Mark Krasniqi: Pesha e viteve të mia është peshë e popullit tim [Mark Krasniqi: Weight of my age is weight of my people] (in Albanian), Gazeta Telegrafi, retrieved 2-12-2013 Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Elsie, Robert (2004). Historical dictionary of Kosova. Scarecrow Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8108-5309-4.
  3. ↑ Academy of Science and Arts of Kosovo-Members (in Albanian)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 List of the Deputies of the Kosovo Assembly - Second Legislation Period (23.11.2004 - 12.12.2007)