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  <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in Gjirokastër, in the south of Albania. His education included studies at the University of Tirana and then the Gorky Institute for World Literature in Moscow, a training school for writers and critics.

In 1960 Kadare returned to Albania after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union, and he became a journalist and published his first poems.

His first novel, The General of the Dead Army, sprang from a short story, and its success established his name in Albania and enabled Kadare to become a full-time writer. He was also the editor of Les Lettres Albanises, a literary review published in French and Albanian. For the last decade he has divided his time between France and Albania. Translations of his novels have been published in more than forty countries.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Gjirokastër</hometown>  <born_at>01/28/1936</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Chronicle in Stone: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>74</ratings_count>
  <published>1982</published>  
  
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        <book id="17896">
  <title><![CDATA[The Three-Arched Bridge]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.64</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>78</ratings_count>
  <published>1982</published>  
  
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        <book id="223666">
  <title><![CDATA[The General of the Dead Army]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>56</ratings_count>
  <published>1971</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pyramid]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>40</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="223669">
  <title><![CDATA[Spring Flowers, Spring Frost]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>44</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="17895">
  <title><![CDATA[The Successor: A Novel]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.32</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>41</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="223668">
  <title><![CDATA[Doruntine]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.87</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>30</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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        <book id="17903">
  <title><![CDATA[Elegy for Kosovo: Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>23</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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        <book id="17900">
  <title><![CDATA[Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.78</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>23</ratings_count>
  <published>2006</published>  
  
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        <book id="2101872">
  <title><![CDATA[Siege]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ismail Kadare]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.38</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>24</ratings_count>
  <published>1970</published>  
  
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