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Albania's best-known novelist and poet and one of Europe's great living writers, he bears comparison to Gogal, Kafka and Orwell
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About the Author
ISMAIL KADARE, born in 1936 in the mountain town of Gjirokaster, near the Greek border, is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Since the appearance of The General of the Dead Army in 1965, Kadare has published scores of stories and novels that makeup a panorama of Albanian history linked by a constant meditation on the nature of human consequences of dictatorship. Kadare's works brought him into frequent conflict with the authorities from 1945 to 1985. In 1990 he sought political asylum in France, and now divides his time between Paris and Tirana. he is the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize. Translated by Barbara Bray
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