Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania’s plight to the world
Jul 01 2024
Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map of world literature, creating often dark, allegorical works that obliquely criticized the country’s totalitarian state, died on Monday in Tirana, the Albanian capital. He was 88.
Source: The New York Times
