3 November 1995 Albanian writer Ismail Kadare talks to French media specialist Mne Nivat WHEN ISMAIL KADARE defected to France in October 1990, shock waves coursed through Albania. Just hours after a Balkan foreign ministers’ summit drew to a close in Tirana, Kadare called a press conference in Paris to announce that he would not be returning to his native […]

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