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Resumen del libro

Ismail Kadare (born 28 January 1936; also spelled Kadaré) is an Albanian writer. He is known for his novels, although he was first noticed for his poetry collections. He has been a leading literary figure in his own country since the 1960s. In the 1960s he focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize and in 2009 the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts. He has divided his time between Albania and France since 1990. Kadare has been a Nobel Prize in Literature candidate several times. He began writing very young, in the mid-1950s. His works have been published in about thirty languages.

Biografía del autor

Ismaíl Kadaré (Albania, 1936) está considerado un clásico contemporáneo de la literatura universal. Intelectual comprometido, su disidencia con el autárquico régimen comunista albanés le llevó a exiliarse en Francia en los años noventa. Poeta y novelista, es autor de una amplia obra, traducida a más de cuarenta lenguas. A lo largo de su carrera literaria, Kadaré ha cosechado numerosos premios entre los que cabe destacar el Man Booker International Prize 2005 y el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2009.