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Ismail Kadare

Memorial Page for Ismail Kadare

Jan 28, 1936 – Jul 1, 2024(88 years)Died in:Mother Teresa Hospital, Albania

Albanian writer

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Emoria·Jul 1, 2026

Emoria remembers Ismail Kadare

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Did you know? In Stalinist Albania under dictator Enver Hoxha, a single sentence could be fatal. So Ismail Kadare disguised his most dangerous manuscripts as translations of German novels and had them smuggled out of the country – into a bank vault in Paris. If he ever disappeared, at least his words would survive.

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