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Ismaíl Kadare, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for Letters
Albanian writer Ismaíl Kadaré has been bestowed with the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The decision was announced by the Jury in Oviedo today.
Ismail Kadare To Receive Prince of Asturias Prize
Albanian writer Ismail Kadare will receive Spain’s highest literary honour, the Asturias prize, at a Friday ceremony in Oviedo.
The Siege (2008) | By Ismail Kadare
The Siege by Ismail Kadare was published recently in English, almost 40 years after it came out in Albania. The historical novel, written during Albania’s isolation imposed by the communist regime, is a fascinating allegory of this part of the Balkans in the 1970s– a reality which no Albanian writer was allowed to describe in a more direct way at the time.
Will Smith Takes on Dark Role in ‘Seven Pounds’
Will Smith reunites with the director of Pursuit of Happyness for an emotional drama of self-sacrifice, redemption and, above all, love.
French Public TV Scraps Nighttime Ads
Commercials on French public television will soon become a relic of the past under President Nicloas Sarkozy’s media reform plans, which many French broadcasters oppose.
