In his native Albania he studied in the schools but in the past often found himself at odds with the one-party communist ...

Albanians will mark two days of national mourning for Ismail Kadare, their "greatest cultural monument", after the acclaimed ...

Novelist Ismail Kadare -- who has died aged 88 -- used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist ...

Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare -- an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize -- died Monday of a heart ...

Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, was Albania’s most successful writer, both at home and abroad. In Albania, over a ...

Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window ...

The country was cut off from the rest of the world during the four-decade rule of Enver Hoxha, a paranoid and repressive communist leader who outlawed religion, restricted travel, harassed ethnic ...

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Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the country's capital, Tirana. He was ...

Enver Hoxha. Kadare began his writing career as an adolescent poet (obsessed by Macbeth, but not above effusive paeans to the Communist Party), before going on to study at the university in Tirana ...

The son of a minor civil servant, Ismail Kadare was born on January 28 1936 on a street called “Lunatics’ Lane” in Gjirokaster, a town near the Greek border, which had also produced the more-Stalinist ...