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The colossus of Albanian letters, Ismail Kadare, will be sent to his last residence on Wednesday. On Wednesday, tributes will be held in his honor. It is learned that the Prime Minister has taken over the organization of the ceremony, which will be organized according to the state protocol. Today and tomorrow it will be the family members who will say goodbye to Kadare, while on Wednesday, politicians, artists, ordinary citizens and anyone else are expected to be part of the tributes.
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 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.
Ismail Kadare is the laureate of many national and international literary awards. In 1992 he was awarded the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca. In 2005 he won the "Man Booker International Prize" where he was nominated together with other great writers, including Nobel laureates such as Günter Grass, Garbiel Garcia Marquez, Kenzaburo Oe, etc. The chairman of the jury justified the decision to award the prize to Kadare with the words: "Ismail Kadare is a writer who maps an entire culture: its history, desire, folklore, politics, disasters. He is a universal writer with tradition the narrative going back to Homer". In 2009 he was awarded the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts - the most important literary award in the Spanish countries, and one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. In 2010, Ismail Kadare was honored in Italy with the Lerici Pea award. "The awarding of the Lerici Pea Award 2010 to the author Kadare - it is written in the motivation of the award - means the role of poetry and literature as an instrument of freedom, becoming a support for all the people of the world, who are denied basic freedoms".
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