Kadare’s Greek publisher goes bankrupt

ATHENS, Sept. 28 – The Greek economic crisis is taking no prisoners as one of the country’s largest book publishers has announced it is going bankrupt.
Elinika Gramata, the publishing house of the works of famous Albanian writer Ismail Kadare among others, is going bankrupt, its owner told the Greek media.
Employees were told they would join the army of Greek unemployed in less than a month.
Employees issued a statement saying that they would oppose a move by Lambrakis Press to shut the company down, the Greek press reported.
The employees, who number close to 100, said that they had been given notice that they would all be fired in 10 days.
Ellinika Grammata, established in 1957, is one of Greece’s best-known publishing houses.
Renowned Albanian writer Ismail Kadare has recently won the “Lerici Pea” poetry prize in Italy in the competition’s 57th edition.
Last year, Kadare won Spain’s Prince of Asturias literary Prize. He has been a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature. His novels and essays have been translated into more than 40 languages.