Novelist Ismail Kadare -- who has died aged 88 -- used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist ...

I read an English translation of “The General of the Dead Army” and was deeply impressed.  I still have the book. It was as ...

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 ...

Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare -- an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize -- died Monday of a heart ...

Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, was Albania’s most successful writer, both at home and abroad. In Albania, over a ...

It was an accusation he dismissed with withering irony. “Against whom was Enver Hoxha protecting me? Against Enver Hoxha?” Kadare told AFP in 2016. “The hell of communism, like every other ...

The Albanian writer has died at the age of 88, after a life challenging, and occasionally acquiescing, the whims of the ...

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 ...

Albanians will mark two days of national mourning for Ismail Kadare, their "greatest cultural monument", after the acclaimed ...

It was an accusation he dismissed with withering irony. "Against whom was Enver Hoxha protecting me? Against Enver Hoxha?" Kadare told AFP in 2016. Rama referenced that debate in his tribute on ...