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Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the country's capital, Tirana. He was ...

Enver Hoxha. Kadare began his writing career as an adolescent poet (obsessed by Macbeth, but not above effusive paeans to the Communist Party), before going on to study at the university in Tirana ...

Novelist Ismail Kadare -- who has died aged 88 -- used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha. His sophisticated storytelling -- often likened to ...