Through the epic sweep of novels like 'Broken April' and 'The General of the Dead Army', Ismail Kadare used metaphor and quiet sarcasm to chronicle the grotesque fate of his country and its people under the paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha. Photo: AFP
Novelist Ismail Kadare - who died aged 88 of a heart attack in Tirana, Albania on Monday (July 1) - used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.
Editor and publisher Bujar Hudhri confirmed his death.
