Sinan Hasani

The recorded working language is Albanian. Positions recorded include list of Yugoslavia's head of state and ambassador. Distinctions recorded are Order of the People's Liberation, Order "For Merit to the People", Order of Brotherhood and Unity and Order of Bravery.

• Name — Sinan Hasani Синан Хасани • Order — 8th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia • Term Start — 15 May 1986 • Term End — 15 May 1987 • Prime Minister — Branko Mikulić • Predecessor — Radovan Vlajković • Successor — Lazar Mojsov • Order2 — President of the League of Communists of Kosovo • Term Start2 — June 1981 • Term End2 — May 1983 • Predecessor2 — Velli Deva • Successor2 — Ilaz Kurteshi • Born — 14 May 1922 • Birthplace — Požaranje, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (modern Kosovo) • Died — 28 August 2010 • Place of death — Belgrade, Serbia • Party — League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)

Hasani finished primary school and Gazi Isa-bey madrasah (high school) in Skopje. He became a writer and wrote his first Albanian language novel, The Grape Starts to Ripen, in 1957. Hasani joined the Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement in 1941, during the war, and the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1942. He found himself in Nazi German captivity in 1944, and spent time in a POW camp near Vienna until the end of World War II. After the war, he attended the Đuro Đaković party school in Belgrade (1950–52). Later, he became leader of the Socialist Union of the Working People mass organization in Kosovo, and was from 1965 to 1967 manager of the Kosovar publishing house Rilindja. From 1971 to 1974, he was the Yugoslav ambassador to Denmark. In 1975 he was elected Deputy Speaker of the Yugoslav Federal Assembly, and remained in that position until he became the leader of the League of Communists of Kosovo in 1982.

Hasani was elected as the Kosovan member of the Yugoslavian presidency in 1984 with his term ending in 1989. He also served as head of the rotating presidency. On Hasani's first day as president, he and his presidency unanimously appointed Branko Mikulić as the federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia. After Mikulić and his cabinet voluntarily resigned in March 1989, as the first federal ministry in the history of Socialist Yugoslavia, Hasani initially supported the unsuccessful bid of the Milošević loyalist and Serb hardliner Borisav Jović, to become the federal PM. It was contrary to the candidacy of the economically liberal reformist Ante Marković, which was proposed by the republics of Slovenia and Croatia, and finally approved by the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia, and also by the outgoing presidency, including Hasani himself. Hasani died in Belgrade on 28 August 2010 at the age of 88.

Hasani also wrote a number of novels in Albanian, which were translated into Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian.

• Një natë e turbullt ("A troubled night", 1966) • Fëmijëria e Gjon Vatrës ("The childhood of Gjon Vatra", 1975) • Për bukën e bardhë ("For the white bread", 1977)

• Kosovo: istine i zablude, ("Kosovo, Truths and Illusions" 1986, in Serbian, concerning Albanian nationalism in Kosovo) • Në fokus të ngjarjeve: bisedë me Sinan Hasanin / Tahir Z. Berisha ("In the focus of events, a conversation with Sinan Hasani / Tahir Z. Berisha" 2005, Biography)

Sinan Hasani is recorded as having received Order of the People's Liberation, Order "For Merit to the People" and Order of Brotherhood and Unity.