Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare (; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual. He focused on poetry until the publication of his first novel, ''The General of the Dead Army'', which made him famous internationally.Kadare is regarded by some as one of the greatest writers and intellectuals of the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a universal voice against totalitarianism. Living in Albania during a time of strict censorship, he devised stratagems to outwit Communist censors who had banned three of his books, using devices such as parable, myth, fable, folk-tale, allegory, and legend, sprinkled with double-entendre, allusion, insinuation, satire, and coded messages. In 1990, to escape the Communist regime and its ''Sigurimi'' secret police, he defected to Paris. From the 1990s he was asked by both major political parties in Albania to become a consensual President of the country, but declined. In 1996, France made him a foreign associate of the , and in 2016, he was a ''Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur'' recipient.
Kadare was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 15 times. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 1998, the Herder Prize; in 2005, the inaugural Man Booker International Prize; in 2009, the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts; and in 2015, the Jerusalem Prize. He was awarded the Park Kyong-ni Prize in 2019, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2020. His nominating juror for the Neustadt Prize wrote: "Kadare is the successor of Franz Kafka. No one since Kafka has delved into the infernal mechanism of totalitarian power and its impact on the human soul in as much hypnotic depth as Kadare." His writing has also been compared to that of Nikolai Gogol, George Orwell, Gabriel García Márquez, Milan Kundera, and Balzac. His works have been published in 45 languages. ''The New York Times'' wrote that he was a national figure in Albania comparable in popularity perhaps to Mark Twain in the United States, and that "there is hardly an Albanian household without a Kadare book".
He was the husband of author Helena Kadare and the father of United Nations Ambassador and UN General Assembly Vice-president Besiana Kadare. In 2023 he was granted citizenship of Kosovo, by president Vjosa Osmani. Provided by Wikipedia
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Chronicle in stone by Kadare, Ismail
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The successor : a novel by Kadare, Ismail
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The general of the dead army by Kadare, Ismail
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Oeuvres by Kadare, Ismail
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The concert : a novel by Kadare, Ismail
New York : W. Morrow and Co., 1994
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Froides fleurs d'avril : roman by Kadare, Ismail
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Broken April by Kadare, Ismail
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Elegy for Kosovo : stories by Kadare, Ismail
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Il a fallu ce deuil pour se retrouver : journal de la guerre du Kosovo by Kadare, Ismail
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al-ʻĀshiq wa-al-ṭāghiyah = La menace du soleil : riwāyah
العاشق والطاغية = La menace du soleil : رواية /by Kadare, IsmailBayrūt : Manshūrāt al-Hajjān, 2020
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Essays on world literature : Aeschylus, Dante, Shakespeare by Kadare, Ismail
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Twilight of the eastern gods by Kadare, Ismail
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A girl in exile : requiem for Linda B. by Kadare, Ismail
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2018
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Elegy for Kosovo by Kadare, Ismail
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The three-arched bridge : a novel by Kadare, Ismail
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The general of the dead army : a novel by Kadare, Ismail
New York : New Amsterdam Books, 1991
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The successor by Kadare, Ismail
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A girl in exile : requiem for Linda B. by Kadare, Ismail
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A girl in exile : requiem for Linda B. by Kadare, Ismail
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The doll : a portrait of my mother by Kadare, Ismail
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020
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