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Coverage dated June 30, 2024

Ismail Kadare: A bright light in Albania's darkest days

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Novelist Ismail Kadare -- who has died aged 88 -- used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.His

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  1. New York Times

    Ismail Kadare, Whose Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World, Dies at 88 (opens New York Times)

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    He was compared to Orwell and Kafka, and walked a political tightrope with works of veiled criticism for his totalitarian state.

  2. France 24

    Widely acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88 (opens France 24)

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    Acclaimed Albanian writer and longtime Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare, who penned novels like "Broken April" and "The General of the Dead Army" chronicling the fate of his country under the rule…

  3. The Guardian

    Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88 (opens The Guardian)

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    His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer

  4. Digital Journal

    Ismail Kadare: A bright light in Albania's darkest days (opens Digital Journal)

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    Novelist Ismail Kadare -- who has died aged 88 -- used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.His

  5. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Albania's world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88 (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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    Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88.

  6. Digital Journal

    Albania's Kadare, whose novels defied dictatorship, dies aged 88 (opens Digital Journal)

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    Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare -- an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize -- died Monday of a heart attack aged 88, his editor and a

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