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Mar 11, 2024 · In a fascinating combination of dossier facts, dreams and memories Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural International Booker Prize, reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history.
Ismail Kadare, (born Jan. 28, 1936, Gjirokastër, Alb.), Albanian novelist and poet. The son of a post-office worker, Kadare became a journalist. Feeling threatened by the government in Albania, which he alternately praised and criticized, he moved to France in 1990.
Ismail Kadare, winner of the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, headlines the Winter 2021 issue + a special section on contemporary Hebrew literature gathers eleven writers from Israel and beyond.
Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré) is an Albanian novelist and poet. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s. He focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army.
Ismail Kadare has spoken of literature as an antidote to evil: “Faith in literature and in the creative process brings protection. It generates antibodies that allow you to struggle against state terror.”
Ismail Kadare, born in 1936 in Albania, is the country’s best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Jerusalem Prize in 2015, the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020.
Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best-known poet and novelist. In 2005 he was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for “a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact.”
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