Ismail Kadare, Albanian author who took on communist rule, dies at 88. While writing under a dictatorship, he won widespread acclaim for novels such as “The General of the Dead Army.” ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international renown and repression from the country's ...

Ismail Kadare Attributes His Writer’s Gift to His Mother. Kadare’s autobiographical novel “The Doll” is part remembrance, part detective story about how his mother shaped his own life.

Thibault Camus. FILE - Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France's Legion d'Honneur medal by French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, on May 30, 2016.

Ismail Kadare is, in many ways, among the most problematic of major writers in contemporary Western letters. But that shouldn’t prevent readers from savoring “The Siege” for what it is, a ...

In a 1985 essay on the tragedian Aeschylus, the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare argued that the most remarkable thing about the ancient Greeks—even more than their invention of philosophy and ...

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FILE - Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France’s Legion d’Honneur medal by French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, on May 30, 2016.

Ismail Kadare, 88, Dies; His Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World. Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his ...

Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Ismail Kadare in a state funeral in Tirana Wednesday, with a minute’s silence held nationwide in memory of the renowned Albanian novelist and ...

Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the country's capital, Tirana. Skip to main content Open Main Menu Navigation ...