The multicultural atmosphere of Kosovo - like Bosnia - has again and again inspired ordinary people to write. Among the young Roma - even in the refugee camps - there are many who express their longing and their pain in poems or in songs.

Numerous authors, known in all of Yugoslavia, draw their inspiration from the oral tradition of storytelling which the Kosovo Roma have cultivated over centuries. They have created a written form of their old language Romanes, which derives from the Sanskrit. In their texts, linguists find elements of language that, until then, were unknown.

Authors who are well known and who have won prizes are: Ali Krasnici, Mehmed Sacip, Bajram Haliti, Dzevad Gasi, Kujtim Pacaku and Hilimi Jasari.