Ernest Koliqi (20 May 1903 – 15 January 1975) was an Albanian journalist, pro-Axis politician, translator, teacher and writer.

[1] Born to a Catholic Albanian family in Shkodra, where he also attended his first lessons at the local Jesuit College.

In 1918 his father send him to study in the jesuit directed "Cesare Arici" college,[2] in Brescia;[3] and afterwards in Bergamo.

He also was Minister of Education at the time of the fascist puppet Albanian Kingdom during World War II, when he sent two hundred teachers to establish Albanian schools in the occupied Yugoslav area of Kosovo.

He translated into Albanian the works of the great Italian poets: Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Giuseppe Parini, Vincenzo Monti, and Ugo Foscolo.