Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international renown and repression from the country's dictatorship, has died in Tirana, his publishing editor said Monday. He was 88.
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 ...
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 ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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.