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A character moves between sky and earth, from a god to a mortal, and back again, in no time at all.

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The first literary book in Albanian was published in the sixteenth century, and it was a translation of the Bible. The country was then Catholic. After that there were writers.

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For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression—rich, malleable, adaptable.

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Linguistically speaking, there are six or seven fundamental families of languages in Europe: Latin, Germanic, Slavic, Baltic (spoken in Latvia and Estonia), and three languages without families, so to speak—Greek, Armenian, and Albanian.

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Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare
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Born: January 28, 1936
Died: July 1, 2024 (aged 88)
Bio: Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist and poet. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual. He focused on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, which made him famous internationally.
Known for:
  1. Broken April (1978)
  2. The Palace of Dreams (1981)
  3. Chronicle in Stone (1971)
  4. The Siege (1970)
  5. The General of the Dead Army (1963)

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