Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is an Albanian writer winner of the Prix Mondial Cino del Duca award in 1992 and Booker International Prize in 2005. He's a leading figure of Albanian culture from the 1960s.
He grew up during WWII years, witnessing his country being occupied by Italian, German and Greek army, which, of course, influenced his writings.
I read two of them.
The Pyramid (1992) - is a political comedy of life in Albania under communism, wrapped in a story of the ancient Egypt.
The Palace of Dreams (1981) - a political allegory of totalitarianism in which work is life and the government controls the subconscious. The main character, Mark-Alem, has a new job in this Palace of Dreams, to select, sort and then interpret people's dreams with the final aim to discover the crucial "master-dream", which will help the government to guide it's policy.
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