Shyqri Nimani: 16 hours in a row I worked in the Declaration of Independence

From the evening of February 16, 2008, Shyqri Nimani, professor of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pristina, the calligrapher of the Kosovo Declaration of Independence, has shown many interesting things.

He had worked for 16 hours in the Declaration of Independence, but since then, when it's been 12 years, no one from the government has invited him to sign the contract for his work.

“Anyway, now forever, until the payment of the host, the Declaration remains my artistic and historical property”, Niman told the newspaper “New age”

In this interview, he also spoke of emotions when writing the text of the Declaration of Independence in A/4 format.

It's true, in those moments I've had two kinds of feelings combined with each other, emotion and anxiety. Of course, emotions concerned him to be aware that he was, at last, that long-awaited historical event of the Albanians and that fate had decided that I could figure out (multipated) by my hand this act of first importance. On the other hand, it was the great anguish that came upon me when I realized that there were three full pages of the text of the Declaration in A/4 format, which I would have to callograph on parchment (Pull). So I had told them that it would take at least seven days for this complicated enterprise, all one thinking that text would contain only one computer page, A/4. Founded under these impossible circumstances, I had no choice but to get to work with all my potential powers”, he said.

I had brought with me all the necessary tools and materials at government offices (so I had been asked). In any case, I had brought along two large pages of parchment format A/2 (420 x 594 mm). This was reasonable because, in addition to the very long text of the Declaration, space had to be calculated for 120 signatures of the Assembly of the Parliament (part of 109 total) as well as for the signatures of the prime minister, president, and vice president”, he said.