A tribute to Ismail Kadare, a writer who really deserved a Nobel Prize
He was indisputably Albanian, indisputably a national writer, but like all great writers he was both rooted in a particular place and universally comprehensible
He was indisputably Albanian, indisputably a national writer, but like all great writers he was both rooted in a particular place and universally comprehensible
If any writer was acutely aware of how complicated the human psyche is, it was Munro
‘People do follow our books… they’ll buy a book without necessarily knowing who the author is’