In Gllaviçicë near Peja, Mark Krasniqi was born, university professor, ethnographer and geographer, writer, academic. He attended elementary school in his hometown, while he finished high school in Prizren in 1941. In the years 1941-1943 he studied literature at the University of Padua (Italy) and later (1946-1950) he studied geography and ethnography at the University of Belgrade. In the first year after the Second World War (1945-1946 ) he worked as a journalist-editor of the newspaper “Rilindja” (“Renaisance”), published in Prizren, and later (1947-1949) he was assigned to work as a journalist-editor at Radio-Belgrade (the editors of the shows in the Albanian language). In the years 1950-1961, he worked as an assistant at the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences in Belgrade, later with the title of scientific associate. He received his doctorate at the University of Ljubljana in 1960. In the period 1961-1981, he was a professor at the University of Pristina, when the Serbian government expelled him from the teaching process. In 1979, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, where he served as vice president and president. He was the first chairman of the Association of Writers of Kosovo (1970), chairman of the Democratic Christian Albanian Party of Kosovo from 1993 and an external member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. He has published several scientific books on geoethnographic, anthropogeographic, ethnocultural themes, etc., as well as literary books, journalism and school textbooks, as well as translated several novels and collections of poems from Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian into the Albanian language. He has published several works in the field of journalism: the set of four books “Qëndrime e reagime” (“Attitudes and reactions”) (1995), “Mbështetje shkencore dhe përpjekje letrare” (“Scientific support and literary efforts”), “Përpjekje për Kosovën” (“Efforts for Kosovo”)(2001), etc. From the field of literature, he has published a number of works for children, works that have been reprinted many times, serving as school reading for many generations of students of different ages. He passed away in Pristina, in 2015. (In the photo: Mark Krasniqi)
Text: The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosovo – Vol. I , Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 877.
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