Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international renown and repression from the...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on...

Albania’s post World War II communist regime has proved to be with its own citizens as ruthless as Hitler’s Blitzkrieg ("lightning war")...

The author of dozens of books translated into dozens of languages was feted abroad, in France especially – but some at home were less forgiving of...

The author of dozens of books translated into dozens of languages was feted abroad, in France especially – but some at home were less forgiving of...

Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.

PM pays tribute to country’s best-known novelist as coffin is covered in national flag and flowers

His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer