Here’s where to start. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Ismail Kadare, the most celebrated Albanian author in a generation, was a prolific writer who often found ways to criticize the ...

Ismail Kadare, the Albanian author who defied the Communist regime in the small Balkan nation, died on July 1. Although Kadare belongs to the illustrious group of dissidents and critics of an ...

Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, was Albania’s most successful writer, both at home and abroad. In Albania, over a million of his books have been sold, one for every three Albanians.

Ismail Kadare, an Albanian novelist and poet who crafted a richly layered literature of resistance, drawing global attention to his isolated Balkan nation while cloaking critiques of the country ...

TIRANA, July 3 (Reuters) - Thousands of Albanians gathered in Tirana on Wednesday to pay tribute to their country's best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, who died on Monday after a heart attack.

BELGRADE, July 1 (Reuters) - Ismail Kadare, an acclaimed Albanian novelist and playwright who defied his country's longtime Communist rulers through his writing, has died in a Tirana hospital ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Aged 35, Ismail Kadare was summoned in March 1971 to a private meeting with Enver Hoxha, Albania’s ...

I knew the renowned Albanian writer and poet Ismail Kadare. He died last week at age 88. Only when I first met him, he was not so renowned. I did not know who he was. Which, from my point of view ...

Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare -- an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize-- died Monday of a heart attack aged 88, his editor and a Tirana hospital told AFP. Doctors tried to ...

Novelist Ismail Kadare - who died aged 88 of a heart attack in Tirana, Albania on Monday (July 1) - used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.