Mark Gurakuqi
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- Teacher
- lecturer
- poet
- writer
- critic
- scholar
Mark Gurakuqi | |
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| Born | 2 November 1922 |
| Died | 16 July 1970 (aged 47) |
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Mark Gurakuqi (Albanian pronunciation: [ˈmaɾk guɾa'kuci]; 2 November 1922 – 16 September 1970) was an Albanian teacher, lecturer, poet, writer, critic and scholar. He was a member of the famous Gurakuqi family from Shkodër, with a well-known patriotic, artistic, cultural, scientific and societal legacy.[1][2]
Mark Gurakuqi was born on 2 November 1922 in Pogradec. His father Kolë Gurakuqi was playwright and a court registrar that served as such in Shkodër, Pogradec, Korçë, Tirana and Elbasan, while his younger brother Luigj followed on his brother's footsteps, eventually becoming a theatre director at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania.[3] He started his elementary education in Pogradec and then finished the normal school in Elbasan (later known as Shkolla Pedagogjike "Luigj Gurakuqi"). He initially pursued higher education in Florence, Italy, but left in 1943 to return to his home country and participate in the antifascist movement to liberate Albania. He was a member of the Committee of Antifascist University Students and participated in the Literary Archive of the Antifascist Youth of Tirana.[1]
After the liberation of Albania, he was one of the first journalists of the only daily newspaper Bashkimi ("The Union"). He also collaborated with magazines of the time and with Radio-Tirana, writing literary-publicistic works and being active in the Literary Circle of Antifascist Youth of Tirana.
In 1946, he continued his higher education in Belgrade but would graduate in literature at the Sofia University in Bulgaria due to the worsening relations between the two countries. Immediately after graduating, on the autumn of 1950 he started working as a literature teacher at the Qemal Stafa High School. After the founding of the University of Tirana in 1957, he worked as a lecturer at the History-Philology faculty until his death on 16 September 1970. For his contributions he was awarded posthumously with the title of Mësues i Merituar ("Merited Teacher").[1][2][4][5]