Jusuf Gërvalla (October 1, 1943 – January 17, 1982) was a Kosovo Albanian activist, writer, musician, and the founder of the group called National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo. Born in the village Burremëdhi (Dubovik), in the municipality of Deçan in Kosovo, Gërvalla pursued a college education in Prishtina and Ljubljana before working as a journalist in Skopje and Prishtina. A vocal nationalist, he came under the radar of Yugoslav secret service, prompting him to seek asylum in Germany in 1980 where he subsequently established the Popular Movement for the Republic of Kosovo (Albanian: Lëvizja Popullore për Republikën e Kosovës), which later split into the two factions the People's Movement of Kosovo (Albanian: Lëvizja Popullore e Kosovës) and the National Movement for the Liberat