To be a witness to the era of communism .. Albanian writer turns his home to a museum .. Photos

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The famous Albanian writer Ismael Kady, winner of the 2005 Booker Prize, decided to turn his home in Tirana into a museum of the dark Communist era when he wrote his novels under a great repression of freedoms.

Born in 1936, Ismael Kaderi began writing in the mid-1950s and published some short stories in the 1960s until the publication of his first poem The Dead Army General. In 1996 Ismail became a lifelong member of the French Academy of Political and Ethical Sciences. He won the Booker Prize in 2005 and the Prince of Asturias In 2009, he was nominated more than once for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

According to the Radio France Internationale, according to the Albanian writer, Qadiri said that he had completed some of his most famous works, including "Palace of Dreams" while living in this apartment on the third floor of a cement building with his family between 1973 and 1990: "I was writing and papers On my knees and work in the morning only. "

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During the period, the windows were covered with thick curtains to protect their home from the eyes of the communist regime led by former dictator Anwar Khoja, who isolated Albania from the world during his 40-year rule.

According to Agence France-Presse, between green and white walls, personal memoirs of the writer, such as a set of coffins set on a table, a typewriter, a bookcase, and an identity card with a young man's image, are classified as a "reserve policeman."

There is also a picture of the Italian actor Marcello Mastroiani, who starred in a film adapted from his novel "The Dead Army General," which was the first of his works to be internationally acclaimed.

Kady spent his time with his wife Elena, between Tirana and the Latin Quarter in Paris, which he had chosen for exile in 1990, shortly before the collapse of the communist regime in Albania. The extreme repression of the Khoja regime came to the architect of the apartment, Max Filo, Because of the cubist design of the building, which is a departure from socialist models, Kady said he did not call dictatorship to eliminate his creativity. "The dark times bring unpleasant but beautiful surprises," he said.

Anwar Khalil Khoja (16 October 1908 – 11 April 1985) was the Communist leader of Albania since the end of World War II until he died in 1985 as the first secretary of the Albanian Labor Party.

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