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The death at the age of 88 of the genius of Albanian literature, Ismail Kadare, has echoed in the international media.
The Washington Post writes: The world-famous Albanian novelist, Ismail Kadare, died at the age of 88.
Yahoo News writes that the novelist Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, used his pen as a 'weapon' to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.
His sophisticated narrative — often compared to that of George Orwell or Franz Kafka — used metaphor and irony to reveal the nature of tyranny under Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1946 until his death in 1985. "Dark Times they bring unpleasant but beautiful surprises", Kadare told AFP.
"Literature has often produced great works in the dark ages, as if seeking to correct the misfortune that has been inflicted on people," he said.
He was often nominated to win a Nobel Prize for his great work, which dealt with the myths and history of his country to unravel the mechanisms of totalitarianism.
Even France 24 has reported on the death of the writer Ismail Kadare.
After returning to Albania in 1960, he first gained fame as a poet before publishing his first novel The General of the Dead Army in 1963, a tragicomic tale that was subsequently translated into dozens of other languages.
His second novel, The Monster, about townspeople living in a constant state of anxiety and paranoia after a wooden Trojan horse appears outside the town, was banned.
His 1977 novel Dimri i madh, although somewhat favorable to the regime, angered Hoxha's followers, who considered it insufficiently laudatory and demanded the execution of the "bourgeois" writer. However, while several other writers and artists were imprisoned — or even killed — by the government, Kadare was spared," the article says.
Other international media have also reported on the death of the most famous Albanian writer, Kadare.
"The well-known Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare died on Monday from a heart attack at the age of 88, his editor and a Tirana hospital told AFP.
Doctors tried to revive the writer when he was brought to a Tirana hospital but he was pronounced dead at 8:40 a.m. local time, the hospital said. The editor and publisher Bujar Hudhri confirmed his death", foreign media reports.
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