Ilire Zajmi studied mass communication and media.Specialised diplomacy and political scienes. She is a writer, journalist and trainer of television journalism in the Kosovo Media Institute. Ilire works as professor of communication in Prishtina. She is also Head of Education at the Kosovo national public broadcaster Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) . 
Ilire writes poems, prose, essays. She is also very much engaged  in the studing  and writing for media issues in Kosovo and abroad.  
Ilire won special poetry prize in the international contest in Milan, Italy, in the 20 edition, held 2011.
Her poems and books are traslated in Italian, English, Romanian. She is member of Kosovo PEN and Associacion Poetas del Mundo.                
                I don’t want to walk on the same roads
Repeat slandered rituals
To drink big black coffee without taste
At the most frequented bar in the city
                
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                Give me your hand, when I won’t be able to stand on my feet
Give me a childish smile when the first wrinkles appear on
my forehead
Give me a fervent kiss on my bruised lips
                
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                They trade with my dreams
training their skills
They shop with my temper
dabble their patience
                
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