Widely acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88

Acclaimed Albanian writer and longtime Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare, who penned novels like "Broken April" and "The General of the Dead Army" chronicling the fate of his country under the rule of communist dictator Enver Hoxha, died of a heart attack in Tirana on Monday aged 88. He had defected to France in 1990 and only recently returned to Albania.