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Ismail Kadare, (born Jan. 28, 1936, Gjirokastër, Alb.—died July 1, 2024, Tirana, Alb.), Albanian novelist and poet. The son of a post-office worker, Kadare became a journalist. Feeling threatened by the government in Albania, which he alternately praised and criticized, he moved to France in 1990. His best-known novel is The General of the Dead Army (1963), about post-World War II Albania, which gained him an international audience. The stories in Three Elegies for Kosovo (1999) concern the 14th-century Battle of Kosovo. Later novels include Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000), The Successor (2003), and The Doll (2015). In 2005 Kadare became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize.

poetry Summary

Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.) Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and

novel Summary

Novel, an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting. Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an