Ismail Kadare

John Cox (University of North Dakota)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.7.2: Albanian and Kosovar Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: John Cox (University of North Dakota)

Dates

Born 28 Jan 1936
Activity 1959-ongoing

Places

Born in Albania
Active in Albania; France

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

Kadare is a prolific Albanian novelist who has also written some poetry and short stories, occasional works of literary scholarship and criticism, one play, and a sizable amount of autobiographical and political material. Nearly all of Kadare’s writing focuses on Albania and Albanians, with fiction set in nearly all phases of that country’s history from medieval times to post-communism. The largest body of material is situated in the centuries when the Albanian lands were part of the Ottoman Empire and in the decades when the nation-state of Albania (which had been founded as a monarchy in 1912 without Kosovo) labored under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, a disciple of Stalin. Kadare’s first novel that was known widely outside A…

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Citation: Cox, John. "Ismail Kadare". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 March 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11957, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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