Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare was born on 28 January 1936 in Gjirokastër. A graduate in literature of the University of Tirana in 1956, he attended from 1958 to 1960 the courses of the Gorky Institute in Moscow. Under the dictatorship, several of his books were banned by the censors. In October 1990 he requested political asylum in France. An associate member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1996, he received the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2009 and the Neustadt Prize in 2020. He died in Tirana on 1 July 2024.

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• NovelThe General of the Dead ArmyGjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekurIsmail Kadare · 1963Literature