I read an English translation of “The General of the Dead Army” and was deeply impressed. I still have the book. It was as ...
Despite not knowing a word of Albanian — and recognising that translated works can never do justice to the original creative work — the book was extraordinary. The story is about an Italian general, ...
For the New York Times, Katherine Rosman wrote an excellent report headed “How the War in Gaza Disrupted an Elite Private ...
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 ...
he also seems to differ from them in his relationship with power and in the way his stories are organised Ismail Kadare, the ...
Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France’s Legion d’Honneur medal by French ...
Ismail Kadare, 88, an Albanian novelist and poet whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international renown and repression from the country’s dictatorship, died Monday in ...
After reading how this Albanian city “rejected all comparisons”, and was a place where everything was “old and made of stone” ...