Macro, Kadare: As a rapsod of Europe, I have the honor of raising you to rank <x0...

France's president, Emmanuel Macron, has handed the decoration of the great “Offier of the Order Legion” to writer Ismail Kadare.

It was during the division of this prize that there were great words for the writer Kadare.

For this role as Balkan poet, like the rapsod of Europe, as a freedom publisher for this was a thrill to embody so much between Albania and France, I have the honor today to raise you to the rank of senior officer in order of the Legadus”.

The French president mentioned the time when Kadare found it difficult to write in Albania during the time of communism.

According to Macron, despite the controversy, the writer continued the silencer's mouth is more loud than shouting.

You contributed to the great rise of the peoples that raised the iron curtain, from France's capital to Albania's capital, finally turned democracy, you have shared your existence between words and things, people and countries, in a fluctuating movement between our two nations. From your trips to resurgent Tirana, texts have been born out of time at the crossroads of myths and imaginary worlds of the Cheops pyramid with that of Tirana, among Luxembourg garden clans, the walls of Troy they remind us of how much Europe is a common continent. As many as Europe is a myth, that of resurrection, and the shores have never been so clear from one mother, you continued this”, Macron said.

Dear Ismail Kadare, sometimes feeling sorry for those years of oppression that have prevented you from choosing your voice to flourish your work, your work has not lost anything of its power, it has been reinforced against the ban, it has taken on the beauty of courage, the freedom that silences your voice, it has shown what unites our countries, inseparably, and that you carry your prime minister today with many talents, this language for Europe, that looks at the West and towards us<1x>