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    Ismail Kadare (Albanian: [ismaˈil kadaˈɾe]; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He was...
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  • Kadare or Kaddare is the surname of the following people: Besiana Kadare (born 1972), Albanian Ambassador to the UN, daughter of Helena and Ismail Helena...
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    daughter of writers Helena Kadare and Ismail Kadare. Kadare is the daughter of writers Helena Kadare and Ismail Kadare. Kadare holds a master's degree in...
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  • Helena "Elena" Kadare (née Gushi; born 21 September 1943) is an Albanian screenwriter, translator and author of short stories and novels. One of the latter...
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  • The Kadare Prize (Albanian: Çmimi Kadare), established in 2015, is a literary prize awarded annually to a work by an Albanian author. It is named in honour...
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  • of the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (France) – including Kundera, Borges, Kadare, and Styron List of recipients of the Prix Médicis (France) – including...
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    Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was named the inaugural International Prize winner in 2005. Head judge, Professor John Carey said Kadare is "a universal writer...
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  • The Pyramid (Albanian: Piramida) is a 1992 novel written by Ismail Kadare. It is considered to serve both literary and dissident purposes. It is a political...
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  • The Concert is a 1988 historical novel by Ismail Kadare. Originally titled Koncert në fund të dimrit (transl. The Concert in the End of Winter) in Albanian...
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  • The following is a list of the publications of Albanian writer Ismail Kadare (1936–2024). A Girl in Exile (Albanian: E penguara) ISBN 978-1-61902-916-3...
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  • translation in 2005 for his translations of works by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, despite not speaking Albanian. His translations were done from previous...
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    Ismail Kadare replied that he had no such feelings. "As you can see," he said, "I have no thoughts. 40 years ago, I might have but not today." Kadare's wife...
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  • The Siege is a historical novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare, first published in 1970 in Tirana as Kështjella (The Castle). It concerns the siege of...
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  • Albanian writer and inaugural International Man Booker Prize winner Ismail Kadare. It is the second part of a diptych of which the first part is the novella...
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  • Broken April (category Novels by Ismail Kadare)
    thyer) is a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare. Published in 1978, the book explores one of Kadare's recurring themes: how the past affects the present...
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    Successor (2002), Kadare brought Albanian literature into the mainstream of modern European literature. The central theme of Kadare's works is totalitarianism...
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  • The Palace of Dreams (category Novels by Ismail Kadare)
    (Albanian: Pallati i ëndrrave) is a 1981 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Set ostensibly in the Ottoman Empire, but in a deliberately imprecise past...
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  • v t e International Booker Prize winners 2005–2016 Ismail Kadare (2005) Chinua Achebe (2007) Alice Munro (2009) Philip Roth (2011) Lydia Davis (2013) László...
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  • The General of the Dead Army (novel) (category Novels by Ismail Kadare)
    ushtrisë së vdekur) is a 1963 novel by then 26-year-old Albanian writer Ismail Kadare and his most critically acclaimed. He was encouraged to write it by Drago...
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    2016: Lars Gustafsson (Sweden) 2017: Pierre Michon (France) 2018: Ismail Kadare (Albania) 2019: Juan Octavio Prenz [es] (Argentina) 2020: not assigned 2021:...
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  • Oz 2016 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 2017 A. S. Byatt 2018 Richard Ford 2019 Ismail Kadare 2020 Yun Heunggil 2022 Amin Maalouf 2023 Christoph Ransmayr 2024 Sylvie...
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    Despedaçado (Behind the Sun), based on a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare and starring Rodrigo Santoro, was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Golden...
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    Piñon 2006: Paul Auster 2007: Amos Oz 2008: Margaret Atwood 2009: Ismail Kadare 2010: Amin Maalouf 2011: Leonard Cohen 2012: Philip Roth 2013: Antonio Muñoz...
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    is supposed to have lived in the 15th century. Argjiro inspired Ismail Kadare in a poem he wrote in the 1960s. According to local Albanian folkloric traditions...
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  • 2020). "Ismail Kadare's daughter is appointed vice president of the UN General Assembly," Anabel Magazine. E. Halili (1 July 2020). "Kadare's Daughter UN...
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  • Doruntine (novel) (category Novels by Ismail Kadare)
    Albanian: Kush e solli Doruntinën) is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine. Doruntine...
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    before the 12th century. Princess Argjiro inspired Albanian author Ismail Kadare in a poem he wrote in the 1960s. According to local Albanian folkloric traditions...
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    Some survived, such as the poet Xhevahir Spahiu and the writer Ismail Kadare, who ultimately defected to France to escape the regime and its Sigurimi...
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  • playwright, 84 May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92 July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88 July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93 September...
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  •  321. "Broken April - Ismail Kadare". Longitude. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2007-10-07. Kadare, Ismail (1980). Komisioni i festës...
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