Ismail Kadaré
| Ismail Kadare | |
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| Born |
28 January 1936 Gjirokastër, Kingdom of Albania |
| Occupation | Novelist, poet |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Period | 1954–present |
| Notable works |
The General of the Dead Army 1963 |
| Notable awards |
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca 1992 Man Booker International Prize 2005 Prince of Asturias Awards 2009 Jerusalem Prize 2015 The Order of Legion of Honour 2016 |
The General of the Dead Army 1963
Chronicle in Stone 1971
Broken April 1980
The Ghost Rider 1980
The Palace of Dreams 1981
The File on H
Ismail Kadare (Albanian: [ismaˈil kadaˈɾe], also spelled Kadaré; born 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist and poet. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s. He focused on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, which made him famous inside and outside of Albania. In 1996, he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of France.
In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize; in 2009, the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts; in 2015, the Jerusalem Prize, and in 2016, he was a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur recipient. He has divided his time between Albania and France since 1990. Kadare has been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His works have been published in about 45 languages.
Ismail Kadare was born on 28 January 1936 in Gjirokastër in Albania, to Halit Kadare, a civil servant, and Hatixhe Dobi, a homemaker. He attended primary and secondary schools in Gjirokastër and studied Languages and Literature at the Faculty of History and Philology of the University of Tirana. In 1956 Kadare received a teacher's diploma. He later studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow from 1958-60. While studying literature in Moscow he managed to get a collection of his poems published in Russian, and there he also wrote his first novel The City with no Advertisements in 1959, intentionally defying the rules of Socialist Realism.
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