Ismail Kadare: modern Homer or Albanian dissident? From: World Literature Today | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Morgan, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ISMAIL KADARE has experienced a life of controversy. In his own country and internationally he has been lauded as a potential Nobel laureate and criticized as a sycophant of the Albanian dictatorship. In awarding the first International Man Booker Prize for Literature in 2005, John Carey hailed Kadare as "a writer who maps a whole culture ... a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer." This assessment of Kadare as a guardian of Albanian identity cert...

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