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The national flag will be flown at half-mast in honor of the work and contribution of the internationally renowned Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare.
The Albanian government has declared Tuesday and Wednesday national days of mourning in honor of the great Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare, who passed away at the age of 88.
The national flag will be flown at half-mast in honor of the work and contribution of the internationally renowned Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare.
It is also announced that the public tributes and the state ceremony will be organized in the premises of the National Theater of Opera, Ballet and Popular Ensemble, Tirana, on Wednesday, 3.7.2024, respectively, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
At 1:00 p.m., on 3.7.2024, in his honor, stop all activities and observe a minute of silence. Albanian Radiotelevision, during the hours of the tributes and the state ceremony, to broadcast funeral music.
Burial, tribute and ceremonial expenses will be borne by the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation.
Ismail Kadare was the biggest name in Albanian literature, among the best writers of contemporary world literature and the most translated author abroad, winner of several international literary prizes and nominated dozens of times for the Nobel Prize.
The literature of Kadare has made a valuable contribution to the creation of the national language and literature. Ismail Kadare is the only Albanian writer with wide international recognition and has been translated into 45 languages. Our greatest writer and colossal prose writer of Albanian letters began his career first as a poet and then as a playwright and author.
Kadare (born in Gjirokastër, in 1936) is one of the greatest contemporary writers. As a writer, he stands out mainly for prose, but he has also published volumes of poetry and essays. He started writing when he was still young, first poetry, with which he became known, and then prose, becoming the main Albanian prose writer.
In 1996 Kadare became a life member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in France. In 1992 he was awarded the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005 he won the Man Booker International Prize, in 2009 the "Prince of Asturias Awards" for the Arts, and in 2015 the Jerusalem Prize, and in 2016 the French president awarded him the title "Commander of the Legion of Honor". In recent years, he divides his time between France and Albania.
Kadare is known as a writer who deliberately avoided socialist realism in his works, and as such his works were translated and praised by critics and readers around the world. He created a work with a universal character but which has deep roots in the Albanian land. Kadare is considered by some to be one of the most outstanding European writers and intellectuals of the 20th century, as well as a universal voice against totalitarianism.
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