Albania’s perennial nominee for Nobel Prize in literature fails to win

TIRANA, Oct. 10 – Ismail Kadare, Albania’s internationally renowned writer, who has been a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, has once again failed to win the world’s greatest literary award although being one of the top favorites.
Canadian author Alice Munro, 82, a Man Booker winner in 2009, was announced on Thursday by the Swedish Academy as the 2013 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature “as a master of the contemporary short story.” The prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, is given to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” Munro is the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature and the 17th Nobel laureate born in Canada.
Ismail Kadare, 77, had won the Man Booker International Prize in 2005.
An internationally renowned poet, novelist, essayist, Ismail Kadare has been a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature.
Kadare’s international acclaim for his works peaked in 2005 when he won the Man Booker International Prize. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.