Prize-winning novelist books place in history
ALBANIAN dissident and novelist Ismail Kadare was today due to pick up the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in the Capital.
The worldwide "book of the year" prize is being presented in Edinburgh to celebrate the city being named the first Unesco City of Literature.
Kadare was named as the recipient of the biennial 60,000 prize earlier this month and will receive his prize at the National Museum of Scotland tonight.
Other contenders included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Gunter Grass, Muriel Spark, Milan Kundera and Ian McEwan.
Tonight’s presentation will follow several events during the day, including a civic reception in honour of the new prize and a public debate on international writing awards. Kadare’s books were banned by the Communist regime in Albania and his work had to be smuggled out of the country by his French publishers during the 1980s. He was granted political asylum in France in 1990 and has lived there ever since.
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