Biography (from the publishers Canongate): Ismail Kadare
was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. His first novel, The
General of the Dead Army, established him as a respected writer, and
translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty
countries. In 2005 he won the inaugural
Man Booker International Prize. He is
also the author of Agamemnon’s
Daughter.
Ismail Kadare
– this site has an excellent biography and profile of him
Balkan
author’s fight to be heard – how the BBC reported Ismail Kadare’s win of
the Man Booker International prize
Mystery of
Man: Just who is Ismail Kadare? - The New York Sun’s reaction to Ismail
Kadare’s winning of the first Man Booker International Prize
Ismail
Kadare’s acceptance speech – for the Man Booker International Prize
The
Englishing of Ismail Kadare: Notes of a retranslator – David Bellos’
account of translating Ismail Kadare
Ismail
Kadare and the Mythic Consciousness – an essay by Morelle Smith
The Albanian
Experience of Communism in the Fiction of Ismail Kadare – an essay by John
K. Cox (Word document)
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