Watch: Albania’s Ismail Kadare, whose novels defied dictatorship, dies aged 88

Ismail Kadare in 2015. Photo: Gali Tibbon/AFP

Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare – an eternal bridesmaid for a Nobel literature prize – died Monday of a heart attack aged 88, his editor and a Tirana hospital told AFP.Doctors tried to revive the writer when he was brought to the hospital with “no signs of life”, but he was declared dead at 8:40...