Andres Segovia – Asturias

MODERATO IS ONE YEAR OLD. And I will soon be 66!
In this year there were 672 posts.
I wish to thank you for all your visits (67,913) and all your comments (149) – with one of my favourites…

Interview: Ismail Kadare

Alice Fordham talks to the venerable Albanian author about his life under Communist rule
Ismail Kadare wrote for decades under Enver Hoxha’s brutal communist regime in Albania, was suspected of spying and threatened with punishment for subversive writing. Despite all this, at 72 he is serene.
Sitting on a cream sofa in his lovely Paris flat, [...]