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Ismail Kadare

1 July 2024

  • Ismail Kadare

    ‘An ancient shadow permeates his work’: Alberto Manguel on the genius of Ismail Kadare

  • Headline<br>Acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare before speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2006. Scotland, United Kingdom 19 August 2006

    Ismail Kadare obituary

  • Ismail Kadare at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2006.

    A life in quotes: Ismail Kadare

  • Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, pictured in 2005.

    Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88

March 2024

  • International Booker prize longlist 2024.

    Latin American fiction ‘booms’ again on International Booker prize longlist

    Works from the continent make up a quarter of this year’s nominees, which include novels from Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru

January 2020

  • Ismail Kadare

    The Doll by Ismail Kadare review – a fascinating study of difficult love

    The Albanian author explores his relationship with his mother and bittersweet memories of home

March 2017

  • Among three previous nominees … Amos Oz.

    Amos Oz and Ismail Kadare named on Man Booker international prize longlist

    Oz’s first novel in a decade joins Kadare’s gruesome Ottoman tale in ‘ferociously intelligent’ selection – but one with very few women

March 2016

  • Ismail Kadare

    Book of the day
    A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare review – learning to live with the dead

    Melodrama, tragedy and myth illuminate the relationship between individual and state in a fine novel from the Albanian writer

April 2015

  • cocktail party

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

April 2013

  • Ismail Kadare in 2006

    Independent foreign fiction prize 2013 shortlist announced

    Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas and Man Booker International prize winner Ismail Kadare on shortlist

September 2012

  • Albanian town, Gjirokaster region

    The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare – review

    Alberto Manguel enters a dreamworld where history and fiction come together

March 2009

  • Ismail Kadare

    'I am not a political writer' says Ismail Kadare

  • Ismail Kadare

    Books blog
    Ismail Kadare doesn't need to be dissident to be good

May 2008

  • Under siege

    A keen eye for the absurd enlivens Ismail Kadare's The Siege, the tale of Albania's national hero. By Christopher Tayler

January 2007

  • Ismail Kadare

    Kadare heads foreign fiction prize longlist

    The first international Booker prizewinner, Ismail Kadare, heads the longlist for the 2007 Independent foreign fiction prize. The Albanian novelist's latest book, a dark political thriller set in the twilight of Enver Hoxha's dictatorship called The Successor, is nominated as part of a longlist for the £10,000 award which spans the globe.

January 2006

  • Tyranny in Tirana

  • The tyrant's legacy

September 2005

  • Living with ghosts

    Julian Evans talks to the controversial Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.

August 2005

  • I'd like to thank my oppressor...

    If literary prizes thrive on controversy, then the first International Man Booker has got off to a roaring start. The three (appropriately international) judges awarded the prize, and a cool £60,000, to the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare - a writer who had defected from the odious Maoist regime of Enver Hoxha in 1990.

June 2005

  • Lost in translation

    Awarding the international Man Booker prize this week to the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare (who?), the critic John Carey complained that foreign literature is 'neglected' in Britain. Is it? We asked some experts to select 10 overseas writers we should be reading.

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