Ismail Kadare was Albania's grand man of letters. He died in 2024. Over the course of his long career he wrote at least 80 novels, plays, essays and story collections, dominating the foreign-language section of the bookshop in Tirana's central square by sheer volume of output. Mr Kadare has since been eclipsed internationally by Lea Ypi as the world's best-known Albanian writer.
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.