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Biography

Adem Demaçi was officially born in 1936 but actually born in 1935 in Pristina. He is best-know as a political activist, fighting for the rights of the Albanian-speaking minority in Yugoslavia. He came from a poor family and his father died of tuberculosis when Demaçi was eight. His elder brother brought up the family but he, too, died within six years so his mother struggled to bring up her two sons. Demaçi studied at the University of Belgrade but had to abandon his studies when his mother became ill. He worked in journalism before being sent to prison for proposing the union of Kosovo and Albania. On release he became part of a revolutionary movement for the rights of Albanian speakers and was again sent to prison. He was imprisoned for a third time the year after his release. Since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, he has continued to fight for the Albanian-speaking minority. He has written novels, plays, stories as well as journalism and political works. He died in 2018.

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