Mirko Gashi
Mirko Gashi (; 2 January 1939 – July 1995) was a Yugoslav Albanian writer. Born in Kraljevo, he studied journalism in Belgrade and worked as a journalist in "Flaka e vëllazërimit" in Skopje and in Radio Priština. He wrote poetry during the 1980s, producing collections "Gjarpëri i shtëpise" (The House Snake) (1980); "Arbor vitae" (The Tree of Life) (1988); and "Plagë uji", (Water Wound) (1990). Gashi translated literature from Kosovo Albanian authors into Serbo-Croatian. In late years, he suffered from depression and alcoholism, which ended in his death in July 1995.