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

After reading how this Albanian city “rejected all comparisons”, and was a place where everything was “old and made of stone” ...

Kadare was accused of cloaking his fictions with historical trappings in order to criticize the Communist government of the ...

In Kadare’s stories, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Albania’s Enver Hoxha take centre-stage, and the workings of totalitarian ...

The country was cut off from the rest of the world during the four-decade rule of Enver Hoxha, a paranoid and repressive communist leader who outlawed religion, restricted travel, harassed ethnic ...

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

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

Albania was an island back then, under the repressive, conspiracist rule of Enver Hoxha. Foreign travel was banned for all but a select few insiders. Even communication with the outside world, ...

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TEPËR SEKRET Shënime të mbajtura gjatë raportit verbal të dhënë Sekretarit të Parë të Komitetit Qendror të PPSH-së, shokut Enver Hoxha, më 19 shtator 1969, nga shoku Rita Marko, kryetar i delegacionit ...

In a press release by Mr Enver Motala on 14 October 2009, Mr Motala indicated that Aurora will only be appointed subject to formal and unconditional approval by the four trade unions concerned.