Where did you grow up?
In a medieval village in southern Albania.

Where do you live and why?
I divide my life between Tirana and Paris.
You won the inaugural Man Booker Prize, in 2005.
The Albanian novelist, whose new book is The Fall of the Stone City, talks about his choice of weapon in the fight against totalitarianism, and how he came to publish his first book.
Where did you grow up?
In a medieval village in southern Albania.
Where do you live and why?
I divide my life between Tirana and Paris.
You won the inaugural Man Booker Prize, in 2005.