(Richard Lea's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/1; Photo: Ismail Kadare, pictured in 2005. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian.) His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer Ismail Kadare, the Albanian writer who explored Balkan history and culture in poetry and fiction spanning […]
