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Ismail Kadare, Albania's best-known poet and novelist, and winner of the 2005 Man Booker International Prize for Literature, will offer the annual Harriman Lecture on Monday, April 17.
His lecture, "Literature and Tyranny," will begin at 4:00 p.m. in the Low Library Rotunda.
In awarding the Booker Prize to Kadare, John Carey, chair of the prize committee, said, "Kadare is a writer who maps a whole culture-its history, its passion, its folklore, its politics, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer."
The Harriman Lecture is organized by the Harriman Institute, a multidisciplinary teaching institute dedicated to the study of Russia, the post-Soviet states, East-Central Europe and the Balkans. Former Harriman lecturers include Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Schmidt, Vojislav Kostunica, Barrington Moore Jr., Ernest Gellner, Katherine Verdery and Imre Kertesz.
The event is open to the community; however, reservations are required. To reserve a seat, please call (212) 854.6213 or email non2002@columbia.edu.
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