Ismail Kadare

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Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best-known poet and novelist. In 2005 he was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for “a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact.” He is also the recipient of the 2009 Prince of Asturias Prize in Spain, and in 2015 he won the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society. Kadare was the 2020 laureate for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

The Doll by Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare
Berkeley. Counterpoint Press. 2020. 177 pages. OPENING WITH THE DEATH of Kadare’s mother (the “doll” of the title) in 1994, rewinding to her marriage in 1933, then moving forward till…
Dead Storms and Literature’s New Horizon: The 2020 Neustadt Prize Lecture

Winter 2021
Ismail Kadare
J. M. W. Turner, Ancient Italy—Ovid Banished from Rome, oil on canvas, 1838 / Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art During the Neustadt Prize ceremony on October 21, 2020, David Bellos rea…
Essays on World Literature by Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare
Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2018. 304 pages. Ismail Kadare’s first and only collection of essays translated into English, this time directly from the Albanian originals written between 1985 and 2006, of…
A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B by Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare
Berkeley, California. Counterpoint. 2018. 192 pages. Ismail Kadare is one of the most lauded writers-in-translation in the English language, certainly one of Europe’s most important writers, and virtu…