Kadare was "now on the pedestal of eternity", Rama added, while the president of neighbouring Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani hailed his "remarkable contribution to Albanian and world literature".

Discover the rich world of Albanian literature at the Albanian Book Festival – Toronto 2024, happening November 30 - December 1 at Artscape Wychwood Barns. This landmark event—the largest of ...

to send to ethnic Albanians living in Serbia who have expressed difficulties in accessing such literature in local libraries and… Some 200 books in the Albanian language have been collected by ...

Novelist Ismail Kadare - who died aged 88 of a heart attack in Tirana, Albania on Monday (July 1) - used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.