 Chris Fawkes of BBC Weather, and you can keep up to date on the website of the BBC Weather Department. The Albanian writer and poet Ismail Kadare has died at the age of 88. As the first winner of the International Booker Prize in 2005, Kadare was regarded as one of the most accomplished European writers of our times. His works have been translated into more than 45 languages. Arian Kochi looks back at his life.