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Ismail Kadare was born on 28 January 1936, in the Kingdom of Albania during the reign of King Zog I.He was born in Gjirokastër, a historic Ottoman fortress–city in the mountains, made up of tall stone houses in what is today southern Albania, a dozen miles from the border with Greece.
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 ...
Vjedhja e gjumit mbretëror (1999) ISBN 9789928164148; Përballë pasqyrës së një gruaje (2001) [11] Bisedë për brilantet në pasditen e dhjetorit (2013) ISBN 9789928164407; Koha e dashurisë (Rrëfim Trikohësh) (2015) ISBN 978-9928-186-87-4; Proza e shkurtër, në një vëllim (2018) ISBN 978-9928-261-05-2
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 ...
Kadare became internationally recognized after his novel “The General of the Dead Army” — which later inspired a film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimee — was published in 1963. The book told the story of an Italian general who was sent to Albania to find and repatriate the bones of thousands of his compatriots killed there ...
The Concert is a 1988 historical novel by Ismail Kadare.Originally titled Koncert në fund të dimrit (transl. The Concert in the End of Winter) in Albanian, the novel treats the events leading to the break in Albanian-Chinese diplomatic relations in the period 1972–1978.
Kadare has been awarded a number of international prizes for his works, which include more than 80 novels, plays, screenplays, poetry, essays or story collections translated into different languages.
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).