Today Anton Chetta's birthday

Anton Chetta was born in Gjakova on January 3, 1920, and died in 1995 in Pristina. Cetta was a writer, professor of literature and Albanian patriot, also known for the reconciliation of blood in Kosovo.

He finished primary school in his native country, while the middle one in Tirana and Korca.

He finished his studies at the University of Belgrade, where he graduated from Romance languages and culture. For a while he worked as an assistant at the Albanian branch.

From 1960 to 1968, he legalized the classes: Albanian Old Literature, History of Literature and Latin Language at the University of Pristina. The first book was published in 1953, and by 1987, Chetta published 16 books with folklore collections from all Kosovo Albanian parts of Montenegro and Macedonia.

From 1968 Anton Cetta has been leader of the Folklore Department at the Pristina Albanological Institute. In 1990, Professor Chetta has been elected chairman of the Central Council of the National Women's Employment Movement. Having visited all Albanian regions during the folklore gathering, he had won the respect and love of the people.

“The wise pilot”, as he had given the people an epithetic, had managed to reconcile thousands of families and the bad phenomenon of blood feuds had almost disappeared completely by the mid - 90s.

While, on November 26, 2020, on the 100th anniversary of Anton Chetta's birth, and on the 25th anniversary of his death, at the venues of the National Library of Kosovo, at the organisation of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, in co-operation with the Albanological Institute of Kosovo, has been promoted the publication of the entire event, writer, Albanian folklore collector Anton Chetta.

November with the government's decision, Anton Chetta's month was announced.