Renowned Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has died after being taken to hospital in Tirana, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88. Kadare has long been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Literature Prize. Onufri Publishing House editor Bujar Hudhri said the author died on Monday. A nurse at the hospital said […]
A Greek novelist and his partner became the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens’ city hall, three weeks after the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The Greek capital’s mayor officiated at the civil wedding of Petros Hadjopoulos, who writes under the pen name Auguste Corteau, and lawyer Anastasios Samouilidis. Mr […]