Pristina, 6 November, 2026
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, met this afternoon with Besiana Kadare, the daughter of the greatest Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare.
Today, Besiana Kadare opened the exhibition “Kadare’s Kosovo,” dedicated to the 90th anniversary of her father’s birth.
“This exhibition testifies to the special bond Ismail Kadare had with Kosovo, as well as his literary contributions and intellectual engagement over the years. For the first time, his heirs are making the writer’s personal archive public and putting it on display,” said Prime Minister Kurti.
Prime Minister Kurti added that the exhibited materials include rare letters addressed to world leaders, items from the writer’s personal collection, materials from the holdings of the Museum and the Library, as well as manuscripts—among them, the manuscript of Kadare’s only diary, which he kept during the war in Kosovo. This diary was later published under the title Ra ky mort e u pamë (“This Death Befell Us, and So We Met”) and has been donated to the National Library of Kosovo. Prime Minister Kurti stated that “Kadare’s Kosovo” offers an opportunity to explore the intellectual, literary, and historical dimensions of this master of the literary arts—Kadare—through the documents and marks he left behind. He further encouraged people to visit the exhibition, to see just how much Kadare belonged to Kosovo as well!
