Kadare honoured with the prize of academic career

Those were the words dedicated during the 2007 academic career award ceremony for academicist Ismail Kadare, by the scientific secretary of the Academy of academic Sciences, Vasil S. Tole.

As the proposor of this award next to the jury, I belong to that generation whose books were long held near the city's only library, where the waiting order of the people was longer than in the ranks of bread or other foods. The main path of the right people is to avoid evil” -- said in the sacred books. At that time and then, your literature made us and made us normal people, in a blessed place but often overcome by evil.

According to Toles, the Albanian language had not achieved that expressive power found in Kadare's work.

Our language, our daily language, had never achieved that expressive power that we all find in your work. This work is the most undisputed confirmation of Albanian equality with any other language as literature and as the opportunity to utter and sing all possible words of this world - literary, musical, or scientific. Here we have an obligation to establish and your self-relevant role in exalting literary Albanian as one so sovereign and decisive. ”

Meanwhile, in remarks taken on this case, Tole said his works constitute achievements for all Albanian generations.

Beyond that, your entire career has been in service to promote the historical and cultural identity of Albanians. The other Albania, the bright one, even in the reverse, that is in your work, is certainly an achievement for which generations of Albanians should be and be forever grateful. Albanian literature has waited for many five centuries to achieve what it achieved with your work to become European literature simultaneously and global phenomenon”. /AlsatM