Flora Brovina

Poet, pediatrician, women’s rights activist? Who is Flora Brovina? It was on 30 September 1949 that Flora Brovina was born in the town of Skënderaj (Serb. Srbica) in the Drenica Valley of Kosova (Kosovo), the now well-known Albanian region of what was once Yugoslavia. She was raised in Prishtina where she went to school and began studying medicine. After finishing her university studies in Zagreb, where she specialized in pediatrics, she returned to Kosova and worked for a time as …