Maxhun Osmanaj

Through The streets of My City

Through the streets of my city,

Rarely do lenecounter hope,

More courses, disappontment an vomit,

For someone, the daye dies prematyrely!

I walk tvo, but I kick the the curses away

From the depths of the years,

Memories awaken me,

In the landscope of time,

I sometimes deceive myself,

In the forest of thoughts,

Some traps ambush my steps.

I walk, others walk too,

Someone’s steps grow heavy,

I wander, the steps of our country,

How are the they traveling?!

 Translated by Valentina Muka

Biography

Maxhun Osmanaj was born on Aprill 25,1958, in the village o Prekallë in Istog.He completed elementary scholl in Zallq, high scholl in Istog, and earned his degree in Literature and Albanian Language from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prishtina.For over four decades,he has bean engagend in literary public i stic creativity and journalism, collaborating with magazines, newspapers, and online platforms in Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia.Osmanaj writes poetry for children and adult proze, and occasionolly literary criticism.He is a member of the Kosovo Writers League, a member of the Writers’ Caravan for Children “Agim Deva”, Prishtina, a member of the editorial board of the schooll magazine “The morning bird”,Prishtina and coordinator of the newspaper”Gazeta e Alpeve”,Tirana for the municipolities of, Peja, Istog, and Klina.Additionally, he has contributed to many Antologies in Kosovo, Albania, and Italy.Osmanaj’s poetry has been translated into French.For 27 jahrs, he workeded as a teacher of Albanian literature at the “Avni Rrustemi”.Elementary school Zallq.He lives and works in Istog Kosovë.                                 

  Literary Award and Recognitions

Third place 2018(coded competition) in honor on June 16 Malisheva Liberation and Martyrs’Day.First Prize for poetry september 2018, from the “Vorea Ujko”.Writers club in Klina, at the Children’s poetry Meeting. Third Prize from the Literary Artistic Asociations “Princ Muzaka”-Fier-Tirana, National Poetry Comtition, May 2020.Third Prize” Shpata e Fjalës”,Liberary-Cultural Manifestation Prizren 2020.The Kosova Writers’ League honored him with the literary award “Publications of the Albanological Institute of prishtina” at the “Esad Mekuli” literary meeting on December 2017.On Octomber 9.2024 the Writers’ Caravan for Children”Agim Deva”Prishtina a warded him the “Ymer Elshani” Prize for the best Children’s work publischedi in two caravans for his worke “How Doe Autumm Knock?”.

 Literary Works

“The Avokening of pain “poetry, 1998. “Songs of the Heart “poetry 2000,”What the Earth Told the Sun”, short stories 2032, “The smile of natyre”poetry 2004, “The springs of My homeland poems and stories 2007,”Idriz R. Osmanaj a Beacon of Education and poet “monograph, 2009 “Does the Homeland speak? Poems 2016, “From the Classroom Windou” poems 2018. “Endless Journey “poetry 2019 . “Who Lives in My poem?”, poem 2020.” The Roads of Life short stories 2021,”The Shore of the Soul short stories 2022, “How Does Autumm Knock?”, poems 2023 “Where Is Love’s Nest?, poems 2024.