Anton Pashku, writer, was born in Grazhdanik near Prizren. He completed primary school and five grades of high school in Prizren, while he completed the last three grades at the Gymnasium of Prishtina. He worked all the time in “Rilindja”, first as a journalist, then as an editor of the culture column and in the last twenty years as an editor in the editorial office of “Rilindja” publications. He started to publish his literary writings since 1955. He wrote prose and drama. He is the author of Albanian themes and universal forms, who turned the work with the form into a cult and who thinks the work is identifiable with the existence of the modern national culture. He wrote and published his literary work in Prishtina. Anton Pashku’s literary work is narrative (stories and novels) and dramaturgical. But even in the novel, he preserved the story as a prose genre, while the dramas, at least as a discourse, preserve the characteristics of the narrative. The story is the dominant genre in Anton Pashku’s literary work. His stories have existential and national themes, always universalized. Thus, the tower is not the linear figure of tradition, but the open figure of essence and national existence in the vortex of universal (harsh) existence. Anton Pashku’s stories are woven into three basic thematic circles: of love, of loneliness required and conditioned by a totalitarianism, and the thematic circle of violence against the individual. The novel “Oh” is Anton Pashku’s best-known work. The novel explores the theme (of loss) in the universal, national and individual variant. He passed away in Prishtina, in 1995. (In the photo: Anton Pashku)
Text: The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosova – Vol. II , Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova, Prishtina, 2018, page 1259–1260.
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