Author Ismail Kadare honoured by Tirana, Pristina, Skopje

Many of them arrived at the Opera and Ballet Theatre after long journeys from various provinces of Albania, Kosovo and Northern Macedonia to participate in ceremonial honours for the prominent writer, along with his numerous colleagues and friends.

The “is certainly a major loss to Albanian culture, Albanian literature, Albanian citizenship. His fiicic absence will be felt, but we have great luck that we inherit his work fully due to the care of Onufri and his publications. Now Kadare entered among the writers, about whom only his works --”, Says the Voice of America writer Besnik Mustafaj.

Albanian writers who attended the ceremony praised Ismail Kadare as the most important author of Albanian literature and as the creator who has influenced and will influence Albanian citizens more culturally in many generations.

Each of us has received something from Ishmael consciously or unconsciously. I would describe it in relation to two major historical ages: We have John Bouzuk's “Mesarin”, as the first work written in Albanian and have Kadare, “Mesarin” of the modern Albanian language literature”, It says about the Voice of America playwright Ruzhdi Pulah.

Researchers believe Kadare exceeded the boundaries of dictatorship, through universal values, representing the values of the Albanian nation's civilization in history, though he created in the darkest years of the country's deep isolation from the West during the second half of the last century.

As for my generation, he took Albanian society to the highest level. He crossed the level of a simple writer and became a spiritual emenciler of Albanian society. We're emancipated”, says about American Voice writer Yllite Alikaj.

The constructions for Kosovo writer Kadare joined Tirana's top state personalities, President Bajram Begaj, Prime Minister Edi Rama, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and politicians known by Northern Macedonia, along with many academics and researchers, as academics Justina Shiroka Pula, who came from Kosovo for today's ceremony in Tirana.

“Ismail Kadare is the collection of Albanian, European and wider literature. We're very proud that we've had it and I believe that the new generations will continue to read its works, learn from its works, and continue that culture, education and order, which he has had for the nation, for the Albanians and for humanity”, says of academic American Voice Justina Shiroka Pula, a member of the Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts.

The ceremony was joined by Western diplomats, many of whom have read the novels of Ismail Kadare, which have been translated into dozens of different languages.

The reading of Kadare books has given me to understand the complexity of Albanian society and the history of Albania through a very human touch. I've been to Gjirokastra, a town I love very much. After this visit, I read the novel “ronic on stone” and came to me as a very living and human work with many events. He was a great man, and his works have a sense of humor as well as inner depth in human psychology, not just Albanian. This is a huge loss, but his work is still there and that is the greatest way to present Albania into the world”, says of Voice of America Ambassador Silvio Gonzato, head of the EU Delegation in Albania.

While numerous citizens in Skenderbeg Square waited for paybacks, inside the Opera Hall, the conglomerate writer's conglomerate conglomerate was laid under the white-chain of Mother Teresa's Mission, while two white hands prayed on top of it with the world mother's famous beads, reminding all of another great Albanian world famous Nobelist Peace.

The national writer Ismail Kadare attached the Albanian language to the most unattainable top of any of its producers, and Albanian literature to the world literary pantheon. Under the shadow of the Albanian belonging to the world becomes the best escort from the life of the world's Albanian, who had Mother Teresa his beloved saint”, Prime Minister Edi Rama said at the ceremony.

Writer Ismail Kadare left this life on July 1st at the age of 88 after 7 decades of creativity from youth until a year ago, when he published and reprinted all his works with the utmost care, while he was a member of four arts and science academies in the region and Europe.

Academyists believe that studies on his work will now continue and deepen further inside and abroad for a long time. / VOA