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Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

~Ismail Kadare

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Nationality: Albanian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 28th, 1936

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