Ismail Kadare (Author), John Hodgson (Translator) author biography, plus links to books by Ismail Kadare (Author), John Hodgson (Translator).

Ismail Kadare (Author), John Hodgson (Translator)

Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known novelist and poet. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. He was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2015.

John Hodgson studied at Cambridge and Newcastle and has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana. This is the fifth novel by Ismail Kadare that he has translated.

This biography was last updated on 06/12/2018.

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