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The Siege is a historical novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella (The Castle).It concerns the siege of an unnamed Albanian fortress by troops of the Ottoman Empire during the time of Skanderbeg, loosely based on the historical Siege of Krujë (1450).
Kavita started her singing career from the Kannada film industry.Kavita made her Kannada debut through the film "Ondanondu Kaladalli" in 1978. She also created an impact in the mind of audiences in Karnataka with her soul-stirring voice, which she has rendered in many blockbuster films like H2O, Deadly Soma and Raja Huli.
Ismail Kadare (Albanian: [ismaˈil kadaˈɾe]; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. [2] He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army , which made him famous internationally.
The following is the list of songs recorded by the popular carnatic vocalist Bombay Jayashri in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi movies. Jayashri has sung several film songs for movies under music directors like M. S. Viswanathan, Ilayaraja, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan shankar raja, Harris Jayaraj, Dhina, M. M. Keeravani, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, R. P. Patnaik, Hariharan – Lesle Lewis, D ...
The Palace of Dreams (Albanian: Pallati i ëndrrave) is a 1981 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.Set ostensibly in the Ottoman Empire, but in a deliberately imprecise past shaded by myth and intended to represent the modern totalitarian state, [1] [2] The Palace of Dreams follows the rapid rise of Mark-Alem, a young Ottoman Albanian related to the powerful Köprülü family, within ...
Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. Kadare has long been mentioned as a possible contender for the ...
BELGRADE (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 after having ...
Ismail Kadare at a reading in Zurich.. With its flavour, tone, and spectacular events reminiscent of an ancient epic, Chronicle in Stone is probably the funniest, and at the same time, most tragic of Kadare's novels, depicting a world in which people believe in black magic, women live to be a hundred and fifty, and girls are drowned in wells by their families for having kissed a boy.