Rexhep Qosja

• Name — Rexhep Qosja • Office — Representative in the Interim Administrative Council of Kosovo • Term Start — 15 December 1999 • Term End — 4 March 2002 • Alongside — Hashim Thaçi, Ibrahim Rugova and Rada Trajković • 1blankname — SRSG • 1namedata — Bernard Kouchner Hans Hækkerup • Predecessor — Office established • Successor — Office abolished • Born — 25 June 1936 • Birthplace — Vusanje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Montenegro) • Died — 23 April 2026 • Place of death — Pristina, Kosovo • Party — United Democratic Movement • Education — University of Belgrade • Occupation — Novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic, politician

Qosja was the first Doctor of Philological Sciences in Kosovo. He was the author of various anthologies and scholarly monographs, including a three-volume history of Albanian literature in the Romantic period. He was also the author of the novel Vdekja më vjen prej syve të tillë (Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes, Pristina, 1974), translated into French, Italian, Greek, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Serbian. Qosja wrote books outlining the history of the Albanian people in the Balkans. Qosja was a figure in peace talks to end the Kosovo War of 1999. Qosja died on 23 April 2026, at the age of 89.

• Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes (1974) • One Love and Seven Sins (2003) • The Night Is Our Day (2007) • No One's Sons (2010) • The Secrets Revealed (2020)