Ismail Kadare is a multiple candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature; first winner of the International Booker Prize. He studied at the University of Tirana, and then at the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky (Moscow). Since 1996 - foreign member of the French Academy. The short story “The Parting Gift of Evil” (“Lamtumira e së keqes”) is published in the bilingual Albanian-French edition of the works (Vepra, vol. 3. Fayard, 1995).