Acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare dies at 88
The Independent|July 02, 2024
Ismail Kadare, the acclaimed Albanian novelist, poet and playwright who defied his country’s communist rulers through his writing, has died in a Tirana hospital after having a heart attack. He was 88.
VLASOV SULAJ, LLAZAR SEMINI, ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
Acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare dies at 88

Prime minister Edi Rama paid tribute to the writer as a “monument of Albanian culture”.Kadare became internationally recognized after his novel The General of the Dead Army was published in 1963 under the regime of dictator Enver Hoxha.

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