an Albanian novelist and poet who crafted a richly layered literature of resistance, drawing global attention to his isolated Balkan nation while cloaking critiques of the country’s communist ...

Albania’s Tito-built Communist Party, still loyal to Stalin, summoned its leaders to a crisis conclave this week. As 360 delegates converged on Tirana (pop. 30,800), it looked very much as if ...

“The General of the Dead Army” attracted major international ... After the fall of communism in Albania, Kadare resisted calls from different political parties or politicians to become the ...

The conflict between little Albania and the Soviet Union is today at the center of the Soviet-Chinese rift. This first became apparent at the Bucharest Congress of June 1960, when of all the heads of ...

Communist regimes throughout ... comes from the United States, and many [Albanian troops] have been trained in the United ...

Kadare, a prominent figure in Albanian and international literature, gained recognition in 1963 with his novel "The General of the Dead Army", which ... homeland's former Communist rulers.

closed Communist police state knew much about him. It was only later that I learned that his novel “The General of the Dead Army,” published in Albania in the Sixties would become a sensation ...

Ismail Kadare, an acclaimed Albanian novelist and playwright who defied his country’s longtime Communist rulers through ... novel “The General of the Dead Army”, which drew praise from ...

"The General of the Dead Army" attracted major international ... After the fall of communism in Albania, Kadare resisted calls from different political parties or politicians to become the ...