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Jan 20, 2025 | 
insidestory.org.au | Ismail Kadare |Peter Morgan
In June 1934, at home on Moscow’s Volkonskaya Street, Boris Pasternak received a fateful phone call from the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. “What do you think of Mandelstam?,” Stalin asked the poet. “What are they saying in your literary circles about the arrest?”Only a month before, in May 1934, modernist poet Osip Mandelstam had been detained by the Soviet secret police. He had recently recited to friends, including Pasternak, a poem crudely satirising Stalin.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ismail Kadare |Rachel Kushner |Shehan Karunatilaka |Olga Tokarczuk
If the psychological twists of The Traitors have you longing for more, these novels of ambition and betrayal will leave you questioning every motive – just like the game itself Written by Donna Mackay-Smith Publication date and time: Published January 17, 2025Murder. Banish. Recruit. With its gripping mix of seduction and strategic betrayal, BBC One’s The Traitors, a modern spin on the party game Mafia, has viewers hooked around the world.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com | Chris Stokel-Walker |Ismail Kadare |Rashmee Roshan Lall
š Happy 2025, dear Reader š with the first brand new post of the year. Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate with the weekās big news story. š§ Would you rather listen? A human (not AI) readalong drops at the weekend. The year is starting well: Our community of nearly 10,500 subscribers is now in 120 countries. Please consider supporting this news literacy effort so that we can keep it freely accessible.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
fabula.org | Ismail Kadare
« Depuis longtemps, j’avais envie de construire un enfer. Je mesurais pourtant ce qu’avait d’ambitieux et même de chimérique un pareil projet à la suite des anonymes égyptiens, de Virgile, saint Augustin, et surtout Dante… », a raconté Ismaïl Kadaré à propos de ce roman qu’on peut considérer comme son chef-d’œuvre.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
reforma.com | Ismail Kadare
05 MIN 00 SEGIsmaíl KadaréCd. de México (21 julio 2024) .-05:00 hrsIsmaíl Kadaré, escritor albanés, Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2009, falleció el pasado el 1 de julio de 2024. Crédito: Especial Primera parte La estación se encuentra en la acera de la derecha. El trolebús es el número tres. Continúa por esa calle hasta la plaza Pushkin. Allí está su estatua, como sin duda sabes. Exegi monumentum, etcétera.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
koha.net | Ismail Kadare
Në qoftë se shqiptarët e përjetuan me dramacitet të tepruar favorizimin e Serbisë, përpara se të kishte të bënte me luksin e interpretimit të historisë, me raportet midis harresës dhe kujtesës etj., ky favorizim ishte, sipas tyre, një shenjë e dobësimit të vullnetit europian për mbrojtjen e lirisë së brishtë të Kosovës. Libri “I izoluar”, një ndër librat më të trishtuar që kam lexuar, e dëshmon këtë.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Ismail Kadare
Between 1995 and 2014, David Bellos translated from French a number of works by Ismail Kadare, Albania’s best-known novelist and poet, including The Siege, The File on H., The Successor, The Pyramid and Twilight of the Eastern Gods, as well as revising earlier translations of Chronicle in Stone and The Ghost Rider. When Kadare won the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005 for his entire body of work, he shared the award with Bellos, who at the time was his most recent translator.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ismail Kadare
From walks on the beach to dinner with celebrities, these snapshots offer a personal glimpse of the man behind the reputation as a giant of Balkan literature Between 1995 and 2014, David Bellos translated from French a number of works by Ismail Kadare, Albania’s best-known novelist and poet, including The Siege, The File on H., The Successor, The Pyramid, Spring Flowers, Spring Frost and Twilight of the Eastern Gods, as well as revising earlier translations of Chronicle in Stone and The Ghost...
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
histmag.org | Ismail Kadare
BeletrystykaEuropaHistoria społeczna1945-1989opublikowano: 2024-06-23 17:14wszystkie prawa zastrzeżonePrawa zastrzeżone – ten materiał jest chroniony przez przepisy prawa autorskiego. Kopiowanie, przedrukowywanie (poza dozwolonymi prawnie wyjątkami) wyłącznie za zgodą redakcji: Rzymianie nazywali nasz kraj Arbanum lub Regnum Albanie, a miejscową ludność Arbanensen lub Albanensen, co znaczy to samo. Potem powiedziałem, że nie upłynęło wiele lat, odkąd sami zaczęliśmy używać nowego miana.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
practicesource.com | Annie McDermott |Rodrigo Calderón |Daniel Hahn |Ismail Kadare
The judges’ selection features ‘books that speak of courage and kindness, of the vital importance of community, and of the effects of standing up to tyranny’, according to Fiammetta Rocco, Administrator of the International Booker Prize A quarter of the list is written by South American authors, with books representing Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela The longlisted books are translated from ten original languages: Albanian, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,...
