# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ismail-kadare
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:13.891Z

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name: "Ismail Kadare"
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description: "He wrote novels under a regime that banned three of them, turning fable and allegory into weapons against censorship. Fifteen Nobel nominations, a shelf of international prizes, and a body of work that mapped totalitarianism's grip on the soul with what one juror called \"hypnotic depth.\""
tagline: "Albanian writer (1936–2024)"
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birthDate: "1936-01-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Albania on 28 January 1936, Kadare started as a poet before his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, brought him international attention. He spent decades writing under Communist Albania's strict censorship, embedding double-entendre, myth, and coded messages in his fiction to slip past the Sigurimi secret police. In 1990 he defected to Paris, escaping the regime that had already banned three of his books. Both major Albanian parties later asked him to serve as consensual President; he declined both times. France made him a foreign associate of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1996, and over the years he collected the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Neustadt Prize, and fifteen Nobel nominations. His works reached 45 languages, and The New York Times noted there was hardly an Albanian household without one of his books. He died on 1 July 2024, leaving a literature that dissected power's mechanics in the tradition of Kafka and Orwell.