The Washington Post
July 2, 2024
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.” He received the Man Booker International Prize.
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’s communist regime in history, irony, folklore and myth...
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