TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was awarded the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor title by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.
Macron arrived in Tirana after a summit of European Union leaders with Western Balkan countries earlier in the day.
Before Albania installed political pluralism after a students’ protest in December 1990, Kadare flew to France asking for political asylum.
Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesFrance has made him a foreign associate of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and also Commander of the Legion of Honor.
Kadare has been awarded a number of international prizes for his works, which include more than 80 novels, plays, screenplays, poetry, essays or story collections translated into different languages.
Persons:
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Legion, Union, Army, Academy of Moral, Political Sciences
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TIRANA, Albania, Albanian, Tirana, Western, France, Paris