Ismail Kadare, an Albanian novelist and poet who crafted a richly layered literature of resistance, drawing global attention to his isolated Balkan nation while cloaking critiques of the country ...

Ismail Kadare, the Albanian author who defied the Communist regime in the small Balkan nation, died on July 1. Although Kadare belongs to the illustrious group of dissidents and critics of an ...

Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window into the psychology of oppression. Here’s where to start. By Amelia ...

Renowned Albanian novelist Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the Albanian capital, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) (Thibault ...

BELGRADE, July 1 (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 ...

FILE - Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France's Legion d'Honneur medal by French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, on May 30, 2016. Renowned ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Aged 35, Ismail Kadare was summoned in March 1971 to a private meeting with Enver Hoxha, Albania’s ...

"Dark times bring unpleasant but beautiful surprises," Kadare told AFP. "Literature has often produced magnificent works in dark ages as if it was seeking to remedy the misfortune inflicted on ...

JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP It was Ismail Kadare's first novel, The General of the Dead Army – published in Albania in 1963 – that brought him fame, instantly making him one of the few Albanian ...

TIRANA: Albanians mourned Ismail Kadare, their “greatest cultural monument”, on Monday after the acclaimed novelist — tipped several times for the Nobel literature prize — died of a heart ...