Tributes to Kadare on Wednesday, the colossus of Albanian letters will be honored with a state ceremony

2024-07-01 18:34:07Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Tributes to Kadare on Wednesday, the colossus of Albanian letters will be
The late writer Ismail Kadare

The tributes to the colossus of letters, Ismail Kadare, who passed away this morning, will take place on Wednesday morning.

In honor of the 88-year-old writer, who is considered by many of his friends as the "Kadare phenomenon", a state ceremony will be organized, but the details still remain unclear.

Ismail Kadare was born on January 28, 1936 in Gjirokastër, where he completed his secondary education; in 1958 he graduated from the Department of Language and Literature at the University of Tirana. Then he went to Moscow to study for two years at the Institute of World Literature "Maxim Gorky" (1958-1960).

With his work, which has marked a record number of translations (in over 45 foreign languages), he has made Albania known to the world, with its centuries-old history and culture.

He started the path of literary creativity as a poet in his high school years with "Boy's Inspirations" (1954); "Dreams", (1957), but he became known especially with the volume Shekulli im (1961), which was followed by other poetic volumes, such as: Perse mendohen these mountains (1964), Motive me diell (1968) and Koha ( 1976). Ismail Kadare's poetic work stands out for its deep ideas and for its rich and original imagery; important role for the enrichment of Albanian poetry.

In the field of prose, Ismail Kadare has worked on short stories, short stories and novels. Ismail Kadare's first important work in prose is the novel "City without ads", which was not allowed to be published in its entirety until 2003.

His prose is characterized by generalizations and historical-philosophical things, the compressed subject and the deep thought often expressed by means of a parable, on the basis of association or historical analogies.


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