The Guardian for Kadare's death: Separating by Life the Giant of Albanian Literature

The “is influenced by life at 88-year-old Ismail Kadare, the giant of Albanian literature”, is the Guardian's title, which writes how he <x2-explored Balkan history and culture in poetry and fiction for more than 60x3>.

Bujar Hudhri, Kadare's editor at the Tirana-based publishing house Onufri, said Kadare died Monday after being rushed to the hospital, with Reuters reporting that the writer had undergone cardiac arrest.

Writing under the shadow of Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, Kadare examined marital society through Allied lenses and myth in novels, including late army general, the siege and Palace of Dreams. After fleeing to Paris just months before the fall of Albania's communist government in 1990, his reputation continued to grow as he continued to return to the region in his literature. Translated into more than 40 languages, he won a series of awards, including the Man Booker International Award.

Born in 1936 in Gjirokastra, a town not far from the Greek border, Kadare grew on the road where Hoxha had lived a generation earlier. He published his first collection of poetry at the age of 17. After studying at the University of Tirana, he won a state scholarship to study literature at the Gorki Institute in Moscow. He returned to Tirana in 1960 with a novel for two students who invented a lost Albanian text. When he published an extract in a magazine, he was immediately banned.

“was a good thing that happened”, he told the Guardian in 2005. In the early 1960 ' s, life in Albania was pleasant and well organized. A writer would not know that he should not write about the counterfeiting of history”.

Albanian criticism attacked a novel that was a world away from the socialist realism that the Hodge regime sought, but when it was published in France in 1970, it caused a stir. Le Monde hailed it as the strange and deeply charming “

Guardian writes how Kadare was on the list of 100 intellectuals targeted by Albanian secret police during communism, and how he fled to Paris and sought political asylum in France.

“-final approach”, he told the New York Times, “were direct or indirect threats from Security, which wanted to settle old accounts. Security would have used the first signs of unrest to solve those results”.

Securely established in Paris, Kadare began publishing works that most directly dealt with totalitarianism.

As his reputation grew, Guardian recalls he received prestigious awards like “Légion d'Honneur” as well as the inaugural “Man Booker International”, an award for career achievement in 2005.

After returning to Tirana in 2019, Kadare told France 24 that his work “only obeyed literature laws, did not obey any other law”.

“The people who lived through this period were disappointed”, he said, “but art is above all. Art is neither unhappy nor happy under a rule of”. /Express/