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5 days ago · Ismail Kadare was born on Jan. 28, 1936, in the southern Albanian town of Gjirokaster. His father, Halit Kadare, was a civil servant; his mother, Hatixhe Dobi, who ran the home, was from a wealthy ...
3 days ago · 8 min. 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 ...
4 days ago · 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 after having a heart attack ...
4 days ago · Ismail Kadare (born January 28, 1936, Gjirokastër, Albania—died July 1, 2024, Tirana, Albania) was an Albanian novelist and poet whose work explored his country’s history and culture and gained an international readership.
4 days ago · FILE - 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. Renowned Albanian novelist Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the Albanian capital, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88.
5 days ago · Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare died Monday of a heart attack aged 88, his editor and a Tirana hospital told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Doctors tried to revive the writer when he was brought to a ...
5 days ago · 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.
