Biography

Xoxa was born in the town of Fier

Fier

Fieri is a city in southwest Albania, in the district and county of the same name. It is located at , and has a population of 82,297 . Fier is from the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Apollonia.-History :...

 April the 15th 1923, Albania. Although at a relatively young age, like many other Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 intellectuals he participated in the Anti-Fascist War. After the Liberation of the country he continued his studies in philology and simultaneously made the first steps in poetry and prose. In 1949 he published the first work in prose novel. Since 1957 he worked as a professor in the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana

University of Tirana

The University of Tirana is a public university located in Tirana, Albania.-History:UT was founded in 1957 as the State University of Tirana through the merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947...

, where for many years he lectured the subject of literary theory. He died in 1979 in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

.