Risto Siliqi
[2] Siliqi was born on August 16, 1882, in a simple family in Shkodër, today's Albania, back then under the Ottoman rule.Together with his brothers he opened a small hotel named "Albania" which served as meeting station for patriotic activities.After being informed by Austrian intelligence that he was on the list to be arrested together with other Albanian emigre there, he left Cetinje and hid in Kotor.At that time, there were two main propagandist press-organs in Shkodër: Taraboshi of the Arberesh Terenzio Tocci, openly pro-Italian, and Seda-i Millet (Nation's Voice) of Musa Juka, pro-Turkish.[6] He was a founding member of the patriotic club "Lidhja Shqiptare" (Albanian League), and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Shqypnija e Re (New Albania), with Hil Mosi as director and Karlo Suma as treasurer.Siliqi resigned from the "Lidhja Shqiptare" due to his disagreement on calling the Montenegrin side for military help in order to suppress the Essadist and pro-Turkish units in Shkodër.Such were Dlirsija (Purity), Grave pa evlad (To women without children), Kënga e pijes (Booze song), Në vetmi (In solitude), etc, which show him as a disturbed romantic soul trying to live in peace only with its inner world.Filled with optimism and rage against any kind of oppression, Siliqi is clearly the poet who call for action and criticisms stagnancy and passivity.The first collection of his selected poetry, both previously published or unpublished, came in 1956, one year after direct guidelines from the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania demanding the figure of Siliqi to be studies and brought to light.
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