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Somewhat unsettled future for the Balkans This serious Nobel contender needs a better translator, says John Murray: Three Elegies for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare Harvill pounds 6.99
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Being a major literary figurehead inside a tiny, unstable Balkan
country carries with it certain heavy obligations. When Stalinism
Albanian- style was going through its death throes, Ismail Kadare as
vice president of the Albanian Democratic Front risked his neck in
open confrontation with President Ramiz Alia. Fleeing to Paris in
1990 where he has lived ever since,Kadare rapidly became his troubled
country's obligatory spokesman in the French media. Last year when
the bloodbath that he had l...
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The Books Interview: Ismail Kadare - Enver's never-never land Ismail Kadare's novels take Albania's plight into the heart of Europe. Shusha Guppy talks to him
The Independent - London
; While the Serbian and Kosovan delegates were locked up this week in the Chateau de Rambouillet, in Paris Albania's greatest living writer was anxiously awaiting the outcome. Ismail Kadare's latest book, Three Elegies for Kosovo, has just been published in France to great acclaim. It recounts the
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FATES OF STATE
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 of Tedi Papavrami Arcade, 224 pp., $24 Early in June, when the winner of the first Man Booker International prize was announced, you could almost
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PAPERBACKS
The Sunday Telegraph London
; THE SUCCESSOR BY ISMAIL KADARE CANONGATE, pounds 6.99 A man has been handpicked to replace a hated dictator. His succession seems assured - until he is found dead, throwing the state into chaos. But was the Designated Successor murdered or did he commit suicide? Ismail Kadare's nightmarish thriller
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Chronicle in stone.
The Nation
; CHRONICLE IN STONE. By Ismail Kadare. Translated from the Albanian. New Amsterdam Books/The Meredith Press. 277 pp. $17.95. Are cities natural? They have been around for six or seven thousand years. Farms and villages have been around for eleven thousand years; viewed through the million-year
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Ismail Kadare. Dante, l'incontournable ou Breve histoire de l'Albanie avec Dante Alighieri.(Book review)
World Literature Today
; Ismail Kadare. Dante, l'incontournable ou Breve histoire de l'Albanie avec Dante Alighieri. Tedi Papavrami, tr. Paris. Fayard. 2006. 100 pages. 12 [euro]. ISBN 2-213-63046-1 IN THIS ESSAY the influential Albanian writer Ismail Kadare makes a strong case for the continuing significance of the works
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