Ardian Klosi (9 July 1957[1] – 26 April 2012) was an Albanian publicist, albanologist, writer, translator and social activist.
After returning from Germany, Klosi was from 1998 to 1999 the General Director of Radio Televizioni Shqiptar, the public broadcaster of Albania.
Authors whose works he translated include Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Böll, Georg Büchner, Ernest Gellner and François Pouqueville.
[6] Klosi had a long history of mental health issues, particularly depression, which had severely affected him in different points of his life.
[9] The opposition leader, Edi Rama, tweeted: “A dear friend of our country left this night, after refusing to coexist with vulgarity”.