Helena Kadare

Helena Kadare (* 1943 in Fier as Elena Gushi ) is an Albanian writer , screenwriter and translator .

biography

Elena Gushi completed her secondary education in Elbasan and studied Albanian literature at the University of Tirana . She then worked as a journalist and editor at a publishing house. First she wrote short stories and short stories. As the first woman in Albania she wrote the novel Difficult Birth (Një lindje e vështirë) in 1970 .

She has been married to the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare since October 1963 , with whom she lived in Paris from October 1990 to 1999. In 2002 she published the novel Married couple (Bashkëshortët) in the Albanian publisher Onufri . Her novel Eine Frau aus Tirana (Një grua nga Tirana) was published in German in 2009. She translates one book each by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and Isaac Bashevis Singer into Albanian . The memoir Too Little Time (Kohë e pamjaftueshme. Kujtime) appeared in Paris in 2010 in the French language Le temps qui manque .

The daughter Besiana Kadare, b. 1972, studied literature at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) . In 2005 she worked at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and in 2008 at the Albanian Embassy in France. From 2011 to summer 2016 she was appointed Ambassador of Albania to Cuba. Since July 2016 she has been Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations and Vice President of the General Assembly of the United Nations .

Works

Novels

Shuaje third Vera! (Turn out the light Vera!). Shtëpia Botonjëse Naim Frashëri, Tirana 1966
Një lindje e vështirë (Difficult Birth). Onufri, Tirana 1970
Një grua nga Tirana . Onufri, Tirana 1990, ISBN 99927-45-13-4 .
- German translation by Basil Schader: A woman from Tirana . Residenz Verlag , St. Pölten / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1531-2 .
Bashkëshortët (married couple). Shtëpia Botuese Onufri, Tirana 2002, ISBN 99927-45-77-0 .
Kohë e pamjaftueshme. Kujtime (too little time). Onufri, Tirana 2011, ISBN 978-99956-87-51-9 .
- french Translation by Artan Kotro: Le temps qui manque. Mémoires . Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2213638300 .

Scripts

1978: Nusja dhe shtetërrethimi (The Bride and the State of Emergency
)
- Nusja dhe shtetërrethimi in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Translations

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō : Rrëfim i paturpshëm (Diary of an old fool). Doruntina, Tirana 2004
Isaac Bashevis Singer : Shosha (Shosha). Shtëpia Botuese Onufri, Tirana 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Helena Kadaré: Le temps qui manque. In: SOLKO. November 10, 2010, accessed October 14, 2016 (French).
^ New Permanent Representative of Albania Presents Credentials. Unitet Nations, June 30, 2016, accessed August 31, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kadare, Helena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gushi, Elena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Albanian writer, screenwriter and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fier

[1] Helena Kadaré: Le temps qui manque. In: SOLKO. November 10, 2010, accessed October 14, 2016 (French).

[2] New Permanent Representative of Albania Presents Credentials. Unitet Nations, June 30, 2016, accessed August 31, 2020 .