![FILE – Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France’s Legion d’Honneur medal by French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, on May 30, 2016. Renowned Albanian novelist Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the Albanian capital, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) FRS107 FRS107](https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/07012024_KadareAP-tzrJuly1_tzr_134008.jpg?d=780x501)
Albania’s world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88
The author's irreverent works from inside communist Albania earned him international renown and repression from the country's dictatorship,
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