Kadare Prize | |
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Awarded for | the best Albanian prose by authors in the albanian-speaking regions of the Balkans and beyond. |
Date | Awarded during the first week of May, preceding the Razma Literary Days festival. |
Location | Razëm |
Country | Albania |
Presented by | Mapo Foundation |
Hosted by | Alfred Lela |
Reward(s) | €10,000 |
First awarded | 2015 |
The Kadare Prize ( Albanian: Çmimi Kadare), established in 2015, is a literary prize awarded annually to a work by an Albanian author. It is named in honour of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Winners are awarded 10,000 euros. [1]
Year | Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | |||
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2015 | Rudolf Marku [2] | The Three Divorces of Mr Viktor N. | Novel | United Kingdom | |||
2016 | Shkëlqim Çela [3] | Embriology | Novella | United States | |||
2017 | Musa Ramadani [4] | The Prophet from Prague | Novel | Kosovo | |||
2018 | Virgjil Muçi [5] | Pyramid of Souls | Novel | Albania | |||
2019 | Loer Kume [6] | Amigdala Mandala | Short story | Albania | |||
2020 | Prize was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||
2021 | Gani Mehmetaj [7] | Cuckoo's birds | Novel | Kosovo | |||
2022 | Vera Bekteshi [8] | Pusulla të verdha | Novel | Albania | |||
2023 | Nurie Emrullai [9] | Duhet të jetë dashuri | Novel | Albania |
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The winner was announced on 28 May 2017 by Frédéric Mitterrand. [4]
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Arti Lushi, Eliona Gjergo, Gazmend Krasniqi, Ilir Bezhani, Primo Shllaku, Shkëlqim Çela, Zija Çela, Shefqet Tigani dhe Rudolf Marku