Helena Kadare

Helena "Elena" Kadare (néeGushi; 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 (1990) is the novel of Kadare's that is perhaps her most widely read.