Controversial author Ismail Kadare, whose surreal, Kafkaesque novels twice had him exiled to the countryside of his native Albania and who now lives as an expatriate in France, has received the Prince of Asturias award in the Letters category.
The 50,000 Euro prize, which has previously gone to Doris Lessing, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Rulfo, Gunter Grass, Margaret Atwood, and Arthur Miller, is considered second only to the Nobel Prize. It honors a writer's complete corpus and can only be given once in each category.
Kadare has previously won awards such as the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, and he has long been considered a contender for the Nobel.
24 June 2009
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I think it was the time for the entire world, to give Ismail Kadare what he deverves more than enyone,the honour that belongs to a genius writer.He rapresented for the albanian intellectuals and the albanian readers in general,for many years a very precious window so they could see the world,their lives,in a diferent point of view .
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