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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.
The General of the Dead Army (Albanian: Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur) is a 1963 novel by then 26-year-old Albanian writer Ismail Kadare and his most critically acclaimed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was encouraged to write it by Drago Siliqi , literary critic and director of the state-owned publishing house Naim Frashëri .
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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 ...
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 ...
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 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).