Albanian great writer Ismail Kadare's health condition seized

It's poet, Luci Art the one who gives the bad news about the genius of Albanian letters.

“Mike, sorry to share a bitter news with you. I was just notified by Arnand Trouseau Hospital in Paris that our national writer, Ismail Kadare, is in serious health condition.

May God give strength and courage to family and relatives, and above all, to accept the ultimate will of”, writes Luz.

Ismail Kadare (born in 1936) is one of the main contemporary writers, former delegations and deputy chairman of the Democratic Front. It is noted primarily for prose, but it has also published volumes of poetry and essays. He started writing when he was still young, originally poetry, with which he became known and then prose. To this day, his works have been translated into over forty - five languages of the world.

In 1996 Kadare became a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in France. In 1992 it was awarded the Prix Montreal Cino Del Duca; in 2005 the Man Booker International Price won the 2009 “Parent of Asturias Awards” for Arts, and in 2015 The Jerusalem Award, and in 2016, the French president awarded the title to “Condant of the Order Legion”.

In recent years he shares his time between France and Albania. With his consent, starting in 2015, the Mapo Foundation began sharing the “Kadare” award for literature.

Kadare is known as the writer who in his works deliberately avoided socialist realism, and as such his works were translated and praised by critics and readers around the world. He created a work of universal character but whose roots are deep in Albanian soil.

Kadare is viewed by some as one of the most prominent European writers and intellectuals of the 20th century, as well as a universal voice against totalitarianism.