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My #RecentRead*
#TheSuccessor by #IsmailKadare

*books I’ve really liked/loved

Taking a break because I am shaking with fear but this is the correct order to read terrifying, horror driven historical fiction. This is hard mode terror, long drawn out existential historical pain. Nothing gratuitous, only dread of the inevitable events that unfold. #ismailkadare #booksky

R.I.P., David M. #Bellos [°Jun. 25, 1945 – Oct. 26, 2025]🕯️😔🌹

#1994PrixGoncourtdelaBiographie #2005InternationalBookerPrize #2017AmericanLibraryinParisBookAward #RomainGary #GeorgesPerec #HélèneBerr #JacquesTati #IsmailKadare #Simenon #HonorédeBalzac #KittyShapiro #DavidMichaelBellos #DavidBellos

🔴 2023 A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare is published

- Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #August31 #IsmailKadare #Booksky

Is Dua Lipa the best literary interviewer? The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans

"in a keynote speech on the power of reading at the 2022 Booker prize, she mentions learning about the Albanian spirit of resistance through the work of author #IsmailKadare as a teenager." #DuaLipa
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Ismail Kadare, esteemed Albanian author, uses ancient history to illuminate contemporary issues. A must-read for literature enthusiasts. #IsmailKadare https://fefd.link/KLS7U

Ismail Kadare, Albanian author known for his works under communism, passed away. Experience life under a dictatorship & literature. #IsmailKadare https://fefd.link/oBrMA

En Afghanistan, les autorités talibanes veulent faire le tri chez les libraires Livres saisis à la douane, ouvrages sortis des bibliothèques et liste de titres interdits: en Afghanistan, les autorités talibanes mènent la chasse aux ouvrages "non-islamiques" ou critiques de leur p...

Les #taliban surpris à "lire" des livres autres que le seul qu'ils auront lu dans leur vie, de travers. A la recherche d'ouvrages importés mais interdits, le regretté écrivain albanais #IsmailKadare est aussi censuré, ce titre surtout: Le crépuscule des dieux de steppe
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Ismail Kadare: Shkrimtari që gjente magjiken te realiteti Ismail Kadare, një nga shkrimtarët më të mëdhenj shqiptarë, jetoi dhe krijoi nën një nga regjimet më shtypëse në histori. Kritikët gjermanë vlerësojnë veprat e tij dhe analizojnë kompleksitetin e figu...

Ismail #Kadare ist tot. DW Albanisch hat mit Forschenden aus Deutschland über den Schriftsteller gesprochen, darunter auch mit #LeibnizIOS-Historiker Konrad Clewing. #IsmailKadare

Ismail Kadare books: five top reads by Albanian author - How To Be Books Renowned Albanian author Ismail Kadare, celebrated for his books of Balkan history, has died at 88, his publisher confirms.

Ismail Kadare books: five top reads by Albanian author who died aged 88

“Bellos’s translations...first introduced English-speaking readers to the work of this great, lamented, world-class writer", says Booker Prizes CEO Gaby Wood

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Ismail Kadare mit 88 Jahren gestorben Kadare wurde seit längerem als ein möglicher Literaturnobelpreisträger gehandelt.

Ismail Kadare mit 88 Jahren gestorben #IsmailKadare

#IsmailKadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88 His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer #IsmailKadare, the Albanian writer who explored Balkan history and #culture in poetry and #fiction spanning…

#IsmailKadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88: His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer




#IsmailKadare, the Albanian writer who explored Balkan history and #culture in poetry and…