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| | Ismail Kadare |
 | | In 1961 Albania broke with the Soviet Union, and finally with all other Socialist countries, including China. |
 | | From the cultural standstill arose a new generation of writers, among them Kadaré, Fatos Arapi, and Dritëro Agolli, who was for many years head of the Albanian Union of Writers, although his work was occasionally felt to be out of touch with the party line. |
 | | In Albania Kadaré first won fame as a poet at the same time when writers hostile to Hoxha suffered persecution. |
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