Thousands of Albanians gathered in Tirana on Wednesday to pay tribute to their country's best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, who died on Monday after a heart attack. Albanians from Albania, Kosovo and other countries in the region flocked to the capital to pay their respects to Kadare's coffin,

Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map of world literature, creating often dark, allegorical works that obliquely criticized the country’s totalitarian state,

Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the country's capital, Tirana. He was 88.

The Albanian literary giant was best known for works including "Broken April" and "The General of the Dead Army", chronicling life under communist dictator Enver Hoxha by way of allegorical stories.

El renombrado novelista albanés Ismail Kadare murió después de ser trasladado de urgencia a un hospital en Tirana, informó el lunes su editorial.