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The Concert (Albanian: Koncert në fund të dimrit) ISBN 978-0-688-09762-2 [1] The Doll: A Portrait of My Mother; The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e Gabuar) ISBN 978-0-8021-2068-7 [1] The File on H (Albanian: Dosja H: roman) ISBN 978-1-55970-401-4 [1] The General of the Dead Army (Albanian: Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur) ISBN ...
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.
The severance of Albanian-Soviet relations in November 1961, a consequence of the "Great Winter," becomes a surprising fact for several characters that Kadare has placed in his novel. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first version of the novel, published in 1973, was titled "The Winter of Great Solitude" (Albanian: "Dimri i Vetmisë së Madhe").
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 ...
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 ...
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The Successor (Albanian: Pasardhësi) is a 2003 novel by the Albanian writer and inaugural International Man Booker Prize winner Ismail Kadare.It is the second part of a diptych of which the first part is the novella Agamemnon's Daughter.