The BBC News offers a profile of Ismail Kadare, the winner of the recently awarded, first-ever Booker International Prize. According to the Beeb, the expatriate writer is “often cited as a potential future winner” of the Nobel Prize for literature, but “it was only after he left Albania in 1990 to live in France that the world started to take notice of his distinctive voice.” Kadare fled to France after years of having his work banned by the Communist government of Enver Hoxa. As Kadare said when he was granted asylum by France, “Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.”