Helena Kadare, invited to "Peter Pan's Trap", in front of curious children, talked about love and marriage with the writer Ismail Kadare. She said that before she met him and fell in love with him, she knew all of the writer's poems, while Ismaili did not know him at all.
"He received the award of the Republic, I was a high school student and everyone knew that I knew all his poems by heart and they had laid out his newspaper photos for me. He didn't know me at all", said Helena.
Then he added:
"I published a story in 'Voice of Youth'. He was in Moscow, he had finished his studies here and went for specialization. There the Albanian newspapers came to a hotel in Moscow. He saw this story and wrote me 3 lines (where he wrote): "I read your story, write and don't be afraid." The whole gymnasium found out about this when this letter arrived. Then when he came to Albania, we met by chance on the street", said Helena and convinced us that chance is the 'king of the world'.
Helena also showed that she does not have a wedding ring from her husband, as at that time they were a "modern" generation and such symbols were not preferred by them.
"No, it was not given to me because it was a generation that called itself very modern and excluded the old customs. Then it was something conservative out of our taste".
She revealed that she hasn't even received a marriage proposal and that their ceremony made people nervous:
"At that time there was no marriage proposal. I was in the dorm, I was a first year student and it was the Writers' Union. Ismail invited all the writers of the 'Writers' Association' and I invited all the dorm mates. greatly angering our relatives and also the writers' wives who were not invited," she said.
Another interesting detail? The writer Dritëro Agolli and his wife, Sadija, were also recognized at this party.
