Ismail Kadare, 88, Dies; His Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his ...

La Stampa, e premte, 26 maj 1989, faqe n°3 Milano — “Ju italianët flisni më shumë për Mozambikun se sa për Shqipërinë”. Shkrimtari shqiptar Ismail Kadare nuk tregon as habi dhe as qortim “Përkundrazi, ...

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 ...

Comrade Stalin”. Kadare says, this is often cited as proof that Pasternak abandoned his friend. Kadare also points to a writer who acts as a dissident in public and submits to authority in private.

Aged 35, Ismail Kadare was summoned in March 1971 to a private meeting with Enver Hoxha, Albania’s fearsome communist dictator. With a well-deserved reputation for murdering and imprisoning ...

Ismail Kadare ishte përkthyer në gjermanisht; çdo roman i tij vlente të lexohej dhe për shqiptarët e asaj kohe ai ofronte një burim krenarie, pasi të gjitha vlerat e tjera ishin rrëzuar.

TIRANA - 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. Albanians from Albania ...

Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France's Legion d'Honneur medal by French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, on May 30, 2016.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of people paid their last respects to Ismail Kadare in a state funeral held in Tirana Wednesday, with a minute’s silence held nationwide in memory of the ...

Novelist Ismail Kadare — who has died aged 88 — used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania’s paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha. His sophisticated storytelling — often likened to that of ...