1. Musine Kokalari was an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period.
15 Facts About Musine Kokalari
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Musine Kokalari was the founder of the Social-Democratic Party of Albania in 1943.
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Musine Kokalari was born on February 10,1917, in Adana, southern Turkey.
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Musine Kokalari was the youngest in the family, while she had three other brothers Mumtazi, Vesimi and Hamiti, whom had a good education, both in the linguistic-literary and legal fields.
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Three years after her birth, Musine Kokalari's family returned to Albania and settled in their hometown, Gjirokaster.
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Musine Kokalari grew up among books, music heard on the gramophone and especially fairy tales, stories and traditional Albanian songs, while she completed a part of primary school in the city.
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Musine Kokalari achieved excellent results through writings that immediately attracted the attention of personalities of literature, linguistics, philology, ethnography, studies of the folklore of the Albanian intellectual circles with which the young Musine had the opportunity to come in contact.
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In 1938, Musine Kokalari would leave for Rome to begin her university studies at Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
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Under the supervision of Namik Resuli, Musine Kokalari worked on her doctoral thesis on Naim Frasheri.
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Right before her arrest Musine Kokalari had sent a letter to the Allied Forces, which were still based in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
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Musine Kokalari died in August 1983, in extreme poverty, after a swift battle with cancer.
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Musine Kokalari had, at the age of twenty-four, indeed already published an initial 80-page collection of ten youthful prose tales in her native Gjirokastrian dialect: As my old mother tells me, Tirana, 1941.
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Musine Kokalari was one of the first 30 imprisoned writers to be listed in 1960 by the Committee of the Three.
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In 1993 Musine Kokalari was posthumously declared a Martyr of Democracy by the President of Albania and a school in Tirana now bears her name.
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Musine Kokalari is one of the principal subjects of the essay collection No Man's Lands: eight extraordinary women in Balkan history, by the Anglo-Kosovan writers Elizabeth Gowing and Robert Wilton.