The Albanian writer Ismail Kadaré died this Monday at the age of 88, as its editor and the hospital have communicated to the AFP agency. He is one of the great writers of 20th century literature and has used his works as an instrument of freedom under the communist tyranny of Enver Hoxha.
Kadaré suffered a heart attack, according to the Tirana hospital, which has confirmed that the writer arrived “no signs of life“Doctors tried to revive him, but without success.
The novelist’s work was translated into more than 40 languages and was in the Nobel pools. Likewise, the writer was Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2009Born on 28 January 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of the country, Ismail Kadare studied in Tirana and then at the Gorky Institute in Moscow.
One of the novels that made him famous was The general of the dead army (1965), tragicomic episode of World War II, which tells the story of an Italian general who comes to look for the remains of his soldiers. He then evokes the Ottoman occupation in The drums of the rain (1970), in The niche of shame (1974) and in The three-arch bridge (1978). The Italian occupation is addressed in stone chronicle (1970).
The Albanian people lived under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, one of the worst dictatorships of the 20th century. A period that left its mark on them as they had to leave their country and live for years in France.
Source: Lasexta
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