Body of Work (Lifetime Achievement)

Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist and poet born in 1936 in Gjirokastër (the birthplace also of Enver Hoxha). He is the most important Albanian writer of the modern era and one of the great European novelists of the 20th century, whose work managed to survive and subvert the Hoxha regime's censorship through a combination of historical allegory and stylistic indirection. He defected to France in 1990. Read more →