Helena Kadare
Appearance
Helena Kadare | |
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Born | 1943 (age 80–81) Fier, Albanian Kingdom (now Albania) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Albanian |
Literary movement | Postmodern literature |
Notable awards | Autorja e Vitit 2011 (Author of the Year in Albania)[1] |
Spouse | Ismail Kadare |
Children | 2; including Besiana Kadare |
Helena "Elena" Gushi Kadare (born 1943 in Fier, Albania) is an Albanian author of short stories and novels.[2] One of these, 1970's Një lindje e vështirë, is the first by a woman to have been published in Albania.
Kadare has lived in Paris with her husband Ismail Kadare since 1990.[3] Their daughter Besiana Kadare is the Albanian Ambassador to the United Nations, a Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 75th session, and Albania's Ambassador to Cuba.[4]
Works
- "Një lindje e vështirë" (A difficult birth), novel, 1970
- "Një grua nga Tirana" (A woman from Tirana), novel, 1990 ISBN 99927-45-13-4
- "Bashkëshortët" (Spouses), novel, 2002 ISBN 99927-45-77-0
- "Kohë e pamjaftueshme" (Insufficient time), novel, 2011 ISBN 978-99956-87-51-9
See also
References
- ^ Shpërndahen çmimet në Panairin e Librit, Helena Kadare “Autorja e Vitit”, Gazeta Sot, 2011-11-12
- ^ Profile of Helena Kadare
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Besiana Kadare ambassador".
Further reading
Kadare, Helena. Kohë e pamjaftueshme, Tirana: Onufri, 2011. ISBN 978-9995687519 (Also available in French)
External links
Categories:
- 1943 births
- Living people
- People from Fier
- 20th-century Albanian writers
- 21st-century Albanian writers
- Albanian-language writers
- Albanian women novelists
- Albanian novelists
- Postmodern writers
- Socialist realism writers
- 20th-century novelists
- Albanian expatriates in France
- 20th-century Albanian women writers
- 21st-century Albanian women writers
- Albanian people stubs
- European writer stubs