Albanian Writer Wins Booker Prize

The Albanian author Ismail Kadare won the 1st Man Booker International Prize for his body of work. Kadare was named earlier this month as the recipient of the $108,000 prize, beating a field that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood of Canada, American writer Saul Bellow, Czech Milan Kundera and Britain's Ian McEwan and Muriel Spark.
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You can learn more about Kadare's life and work from the online database Contemporary Authors