Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare awarded French Legion of Honor title by Macron

TIRANA, Albania — Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was awarded the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor title by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.

Macron arrived in Tirana after a summit of European Union leaders with Western Balkan international locations earlier within the day. He did not attend the talks due to the assault during which a instructor was fatally stabbed and three different individuals have been wounded at a college in northern France.

In a protracted speech describing Kadare’s totally different novels all through his writing profession and the way he had resisted Albania’s communist authorities, Macron awarded the title “for his works, his braveness to stand up in opposition to a dictatorial system … and a defender of freedom, a fantastic author of humanity.”

Kadare, 87, has lengthy been talked about as a attainable contender for the Nobel Literature Prize. He has been well-known internationally since his “The Common of the {Dead} Military” novel was revealed in 1963 when Albania was ruled by the communist authorities of late dictator Enver Hoxha.

Earlier than Albania put in political pluralism after a college students’ protest in December 1990, Kadare flew to France asking for political asylum. He lived in Paris and not too long ago returned to Tirana.

France has made him a overseas affiliate of the Academy of Ethical and Political Sciences and likewise Commander of the Legion of Honor.

Kadare has been awarded plenty of worldwide prizes for his works, which embrace greater than 80 novels, performs, screenplays, poetry, essays or story collections translated into totally different languages.

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