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 Tira...

Ismail Kadara is an Albanian prose writer and poet. Known throughout the world as an outstanding writer of our time. Knight of the Legion of Honour, laureate...

In 1377, on the frontier between the crumbling Byzantine empire and the advancing Ottoman Turks, a mysterious work crew begins to construct a three-arched...

From behind the closed door, the man shouts, 'Be on your way — you have no business here!''Open up, I am the messenger of Death'.As spring arrives in the ...

Ismail Kadare once called The Palace of Dreams "the most courageous book I have written; in literary terms, it is perhaps the best". When it was first pub...

It is 1943, and the Second World War is ravaging Europe. Mussolini decides to pull out of his alliance with the Nazis, and withdraws the Italian troops oc...

In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Liter...

Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf VrioniAt the heart of the Sultan’s vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of...

Ismail Kadare (Ismail Kadare; born 1936) is an Albanian poet, prose writer, essayist, winner of several literary prizes, member of the French Academy. Gradua...

On the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it...

The historical plot, combined with a modern, laconic style of writing, gives particular attractiveness to the works of Ismail Kadare, an Albanian writer, mul...

June 28, 1389: six hundred years before Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic called for a new massacre in Kosovo, there took place, on the Field of the Black...