Xhemil Bytyçi was born in Billushe, Prizren, on January 5, 1941. He completed his primary and secondary education in Prizren, while he completed the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade in 1968. At the same time, he graduated in the Department of Dentistry, of this University. Dr. Xhemili started to deal with literary writing when he was a high school student. Since then he had started writing poems, stories and plays. During his studies, he was active in the literary and musical group of the then well-known Association of Albanian Students of the University of Belgrade named “Perpjekja”. After graduating from the faculty, he started teaching at the High School of Medicine in Prizren. In 1973, he started working at the Urology Clinic of the University of Pristina. He specialized in urology at “Rebro” Hospital in Zagreb. In 1986, he defended his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pristina with the title “Contribution to the etiology of nephrolithiasis – a clinical-epidemiological study in the region of Kosova” and advanced to the rank of doctor of medical science. Prof. dr. Xhemil Bytyçi was for many years a regular lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Pristina with the highest rank – full professor. Prof. dr. Xhemil Bytyçi is one of the most popular urologists in Kosovo. He’s very successful in pedagogical, scientific and clinical work. He has participated in many national and international congresses, seminars and scientific symposia. He has published over 110 articles, reports, studies and works in specialized professional journals in the field of urology and surgery. He worked in this medical and educational institution until his retirement in 2006. Even after his retirement, he continued to perform with full ethical and professional competence the work of a specialist-urologist at the private clinic “Uropriz” in Prizren and still continues his work as a professor of urology at the private hospital “Aloka” and at the Special Urological Hospital “Vita – Hospital” in Pristina.
Literary Creativity
As for literary creativity, he started writing as a high school student. So far, he has published 34 literary works, especially poems, haiku poems of the Japanese genre, but also drama.