Ismail Kadare
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ISMAIL KADARE was born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, in the south of Albania. His first novel, The General of the Dead Army, established him as a respected writer, and translations of his novels have since been published in more than forty countries. In 2005 he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize.
DAVID BELLOS, a Professor of French and Comparative Literature, has translated five of Kadare’s novels and was awarded the Translator’s Man Booker International Prize in 2005
Twilight of the Eastern Gods
One of the earliest novels from Man Booker International Prize-winner Ismail Kadare, in English for the first time
