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Inspiration bubbles over for winning wordsmith
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THE Albanian dissident writer Ismail Kadare yesterday collected
the first Man Booker International Prize for Literature and told how
the biggest influence on his writing was Macbeth.
Mr Kadare picked up the GBP 60,000 award in Edinburgh last night
for writing that mixes the traditional blood feuds of the Balkans
with the struggles of a country under Communist dictatorship.
He was setting out today for a "Macbeth tour" to Dunsinane and
Glamis Castle, a place which he said "fired his passion for
literature". Mr Kadare told how he grew up in a small medieval city
with a castle, used by the ...
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BOOKS: THE ORPHAN'S VOICE
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Albanian's top author defects to France
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; PARIS Ismail Kadare, considered the greatest living Albanian writer...were stunned to learn from Western journalists of Kadare's defection. "I don't believe it. It's not possible that Kadare did that," one journalist said. Kadare's action...
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Book Review: Chronicle In Stone: The boy who saw too much
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; CHRONICLE IN STONE BY Ismail Kadare Canongate, 384pp, GBP 7.99 ISMAIL KADARE'S FICTIONALISED memoir of his childhood is a brisk read. The setting is Kadare's home city, Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania, near the Greek border, the time 1939-43...
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A dissident spirit
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...August 05, 2005 -- Albanian writer Ismail Kadare is so renowned in his homeland that his...Prize. When mistaken for a Nobel laureate, Kadare always used to remind people that Albania...of the West. That changed in June when Kadare netted the new biennial Man Booker International...
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Palaces of Dreams.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ELEGY FOR KOSOVO. By Ismail Kadare. Arcade. 121 pp. $17.95. The Battle...Yugoslav war, the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare published three linked fables that...Elegantly turned and subtly prophetic--for Kadare, like most observers of the region...
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FATES OF STATE
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; booker winner ismail kadare and the aesthetics of resistance FATES OF STATE THE SUCCESSOR By Ismail Kadare Translated by David Bellos from the French...prize to an obscure Albanian named Ismail Kadare. He appeared to have the requisite political...
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Ismail Kadare: modern Homer or Albanian dissident?
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ISMAIL KADARE has experienced a life of controversy...for Literature in 2005, John Carey hailed Kadare as a writer who maps a whole culture...goes back to Homer. This assessment of Kadare as a guardian of Albanian identity certainly...
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The Concert.
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...prison terms. Expatriate novelist Ismail Kadare thinks history has slashed its way through...in a holier-than-thou police state. In Kadare, a medieval sense of fate as a malevolent...fantasies a la Borges, Kafka and Joyce. Kadare's first novel, The General of the Dead...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; Ismael Kadare. Claude Durand et al., trs. Alain Bosquet...The international reception of Ismail Kadare's works over the last thirty years has...English-speaking readers have begun to take note of Kadare, even though1 they are doing so at a point...
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THE SUCCESSORBOOKS / FICTION
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Tribune 11-17-2005 THE SUCCESSOR By Ismail Kadare (translated from the French of Tedi Papavrami...isolation, the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare, born in 1936, has written over a dozen...first to appear in the United States since Kadare became the inaugural recipient of the...
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