Discover the complex world of Ismail Kadare's novels, exploring themes of epic poetry, nationalism, and anti-authoritarianism ...

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 ...

Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international ...

Ismail Kadare: the closest he came to a bullet in the head was with his 1975 satirical poem 'The Red Pashas' Credit: Gamma-Rapho Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, was Albania’s most ...

Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, was Albania’s most successful writer, both at home and abroad. In Albania, over a million of his books have been sold, one for every three Albanians.

The author of dozens of books translated into dozens of languages was feted abroad, in France especially – but some at home were less forgiving of his role during the communist era. Ismail ...

I knew the renowned Albanian writer and poet Ismail Kadare. He died last week at age 88. Only when I first met him, he was not so renowned. I did not know who he was. Which, from my point of view ...

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 ...

His sophisticated storytelling -- often likened to that of George Orwell or Franz Kafka -- used metaphor and irony to reveal the nature of tyranny under Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1946 until ...

TIRANA, July 3 (Reuters) - 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.