Unknown photos / From his close friends, Luigj Gurakuqi and Padër Gjergj Fishta, to his brother, Dom Mikeli, sisters Margerita and Antonieta and… ”/ Rare images of Ernest Koliqi

Memorie.al publishes some photos with rare images of the famous poet, publicist, writer, researcher, translator, playwright, novelist, journalist, pedagogue and albanologist, Ernest Koliqi, who was forced to spend most of his life in exile, in foreign lands, after the communist regime of Enver Hoxha had declared him a “traitor and enemy of the people”! From the photos with his brother, Dom Mikeli, in the first years of the last century when they were young and studying at the Saverian College of their hometown, in the city of Shkodra, photo from 1920, his two sisters, Margerita and Antonieta, posed with a friend, the daughter of the famous French engineer, Briot, photos of 1920, in the Franciscan Assembly of Shkodra, where Ernest and his brother, Lec Koliqi, appeared near Padër Gjergj Fishta, those of 1924, in Bari, Italy, where Ernest and his other brother, Dom Mikeli, posed with some of their close friends, political emigrants, anti-Zogists led by Luigj Gurakuqi, who had organized and participated in the ‘June Uprising’. , photos of 1924, with a group of friends and brother, Gulielm Koliqi, in the city of Shkodra, photos of the ’30s, at the wedding of their nephew, Salvator Kurti, to the images fixed in the funeral ceremony of the musician known from Shkodra and their friend, Palok Kurti, e tj. Most of these images of Ernest Koliqi, which were donated for publication to the editorial office of Memorie.al by the famous artist and businessman from Shkodra, living in Tirana, Gjon Kolqi, (one of the suckers of the famous Koliqi family with origin from Shiroka), are realized by the famous Marubs of Shkodra.