العاشق والطاغية

He was born in 1936 in southern Albania, studied at Nirana University and Gorky Institute, then went to Moscow to study literature, and in 1960 he returned to Albania and worked in the field of journalism. Ismail Kadare won the International Booker Prize in 2005. He has published many novels and books Many of Ismail Kadari / Kadare’s novels have been translated into international languages, including eight novels into Arabic: “The Dead Army General” (Damascus, 1981), and another in Cairo (2001) and “ Al-Hosn” (Damascus, 1986, re-issued in Cairo, and third in Beirut under the name “Drums of Rain” (1990), “Who Returns Dorntain” (Beirut 1989), “The Stone City” (Beirut 1989), and “The Beast” (Beirut, 1992). ), "The Palace of Dreams" (Beirut, 1992), "The Bridge" (Beirut, 1994), and "The Lover and the Tyrant" (Damascus, 1999), while he has authored more than fifty books in Albanian, novels, poetry collections, plays, stories, and intellectual and political research. And press interviews.