Helena Kadare

Helena "Elena" Kadare (; born 21 September 1943) is an Albanian screenwriter, translator and author of short stories and novels. One of the latter, 1970's Një lindje e vështirë, is the first novel by a woman to have been published in Albanian. A Woman from Tirana is the novel of Kadare's that is perhaps her most widely read.

Biography Helena Gushi was born on 21 September 1943 in Fier, in southern Albania. Kadare moved to Paris, France, with her husband 1990, as her husband had been critical of the Albanian government and needed to receive political asylum there. The couple returned to Albania in 2021.

Their daughter, Besiana Kadare, is the Albanian Ambassador to the United Nations, a Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 75th session, and Albania's Ambassador to Cuba.

Works Kadare has written numerous short stories, as well as translations of other works. Një lindje e vështirë (A Difficult Birth), novel, 1970 Një grua nga Tirana (A Woman from Tirana), novel, 1990 Bashkëshortët (Spouses), novel, 2002 Le temps qui manque mémoires, 2010 Kohë e pamjaftueshme (Insufficient Time), novel, 2011 Një grua në Berlin: Ditar 20 prill - 22 Qershor 1945 (A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous (Diary April 20 - June 22, 1945), 2016