"Glory to the work of the life of the colossus Ismail Kadare"/ Kurti and Osmani express their condolences

2024-07-01 11:46:00, Aktualitet CNA

"Glory to the work of the life of the colossus Ismail Kadare"/ Kurti

Vjosa Osmani and Albin Kurti

There are not a few reactions to the death of the well-known Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare.

Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti says that today we lost the greatest writer of all time. According to him, the ship of Kadare's novels will sail endlessly.

"We lost the greatest writer of all time, the world lost its greatest living writer. As we entered the second half of 2024, Kadare closed his eyes forever. But our eyes have seen and will see much better because of the imagination and knowledge of Ismail Kadare. When he closed his eyes in his life and thought about the mountains of Albania and the precipices of history, while embroidering thousands of pages with beautiful Albanians like the sky, we collectively saw more clearly and looked better , we thought more deeply and learned more. Our art and culture owe an immeasurable debt to the ocean of his mind. The ship of Kadare's novels will sail endlessly, as long as the world will have Albanian readers, writes Albin Kurti. Condolences to everyone," he said.

There was also a reaction from the president of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, who underlined that today we lost the colossus and the most famous Albanian scholar.

"In human history, writers have often given direction to nations in the most difficult moments of history, articulating the idea of ??freedom. Ismail Kadare was the Albanian genius, the man and the writer who dedicated his whole life and work to the love of the land, blood of the country of the Albanians, creating an irresistible legacy of worship and glory towards the country of their nation.

With this love, which he has expressed everywhere in his works, he has presented the values ??of his people around the world, promoting the Albanian language, culture and literature and the Albanian people themselves, while the right of the Albanian people of Kosovo to live free, he defended Mosvarma all over the world, in intellectual and cultural circles, in political environments and in his correspondence with prominent world personalities. The people of Kosovo, like the entire Albanian people, are in mourning today. He lost the colossus and the most famous Albanian scholar, he lost the unstoppable supporter of the right of the Albanian people in Kosovo to live free and unbroken and the unstoppable promoter of this right all over the world. We lost the inimitable writer, to whom as President I had the honor to hand over the citizenship of Kosovo some time ago, as well as the Order "Hasan Prishtina", she says.

According to her, Kadare artistically and intellectually cultivated the feeling of freedom, making us, the Kosovar Albanians, better understand the extent of freedom and bleed it eternally.

"His passing into the afterlife marks his physical separation from us, but he will remain forever in the hearts and souls of millions of readers and fans of his work, in the hearts and souls of every Albanian, the nation he served until the last breath. Glory to the life work of the colossus Ismail Kadare", she concluded./ CNA