Well-known Albanian writer and researcher Moikom Zeqo passed away on Monday at 71 years after a long battle with a grave disease, leaving behind numerous renowned works for the culture of the country.<\/p>\n
Who was Moikom Zeqo?<\/p>\n
The researcher was born on 3 of June 1949 at the city of Durres, but his parents are originally from Libohova, where he also attended his elementary studies.<\/p>\n
In 1967, he started studying history at the University of Tirana and graduated in 1971 with a degree in Literature. After finishing his studies, he started off his career as a journalist and literary editor of an eminent newspapers, Drita.<\/p>\n
Zeqo moved to Rrogozhina in 1974 where he worked as a teacher for three years. By the end the of 70\u2019s, he began working as a researcher at the Archeological Museum of Durres where he stayed for almost 10 years, moving to the capital afterwards as a specialist at the sector of ancient\u2019s arts at the Academy of Sciences in Tirana.<\/p>\n
After the fall of communist regime, Zeqo was appointed chair of the Cultural Committee. In 1991 he entered politics as he was elected in the assembly, serving for circa 6 years. He ended his career as the director of the National Museum, leading the important institution from the difficult year of 1997 to 2005.<\/p>\n
He was the author of 62 poetry books, various archeological studies, on the history of art and has also written several screenplays for movies and TV series of an archeological genre,<\/p>\n
His works have been translated in many languages such as: English, French, Italian, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Rumanian, Polish, Danish and Dutch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well-known Albanian writer and researcher Moikom Zeqo passed away on Monday at 71 years after a long battle with a grave disease, leaving behind numerous renowned works for the culture of the country. Who was Moikom Zeqo? The researcher was born on 3 of June 1949 at the city of Durres, but his parents are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n