Ismail Kadare, the Albanian writer who explored Balkan history and culture in poetry and fiction spanning more than 60 years, has died aged 88, his publisher has said.
After fleeing to Paris just months before Albania's communist government collapsed in 1990, his reputation continued to grow as he kept returning to the region in his fiction.
Translated into more than 40 languages, he won a series of awards including the Man Booker International prize. Born in 1936 in Gjirokaster, an Ottoman fortress city not far from the Greek border,
When all is said and done, can a pile of bones still have a name?
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