Maxhun Osmanaj was born on April 25, 1958 in the village of Prekalle in Istog-Kosovo. He finished primary school in Zallq, high school in Istog, while the Faculty of Philosophy, the branch of Literature and Albanian Language in Prishtina. For over forty years he has been involved in literary and journalistic writings in newspapers and magazines in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia.
He writes poetry for children and adults, prose and poetry, as well as occasional literary criticism. He is a member of the League of Writers of Kosovo, a member of the Caravan of Writers for Children “Agim Deva”, a member of the editorial board of the school magazine “Morning Bird” “, Pristina. During four decades of literary and journalistic creativity, he has been awarded with prizes, honored with recognition and certificates. He worked as a teacher of the Albanian language for almost three decades. Lives and works in Istog. So far, he has published 13 books in different literary genres.
THE AWAKENING OF PAIN
Don’t wake up the pain of my childhood
For the childhood spent in flames That painfully I can cry in the oil. Don’t wake me up the pain of youth For troubled youth
That I can laugh like a fool.
Don’t wake up my pain
Of the wounded soul on the journey That I can neither laugh nor cry. Don’t wake me up the lost years With life wrapped up
With the dramatic cloak
With the oil of lemerita sadness
That you can heal me with this therapy.
WHEN I SING
When I sing in silence
Kill loneliness.
When I sing out loud
Relive history.
When I sing with a pen
Raise up the Motherland.
1990
ADVICE
Don’t spoil my morning on the way out
At noon, save me for the fierce battlefields
Twilight leave me alone
That he cannot be postponed
Never with lightning…
1998
prepared Rifat Ismaili
