Xhevdet Bajraj
Kosovar poet and screenwriter (1960–2022)
Xhevdet Bajraj (Serbo-Croat: Dževdet Bajraj; 1960 – 22 June 2022) was an ethnic Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriter who resided in Mexico.
Biography
Born in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Bajraj was granted residency in Mexico as a refugee thanks to the International Parliament of Writers that offered him the options of France, Italy or Mexico. He fled the war in the Kosovo for a more peaceful Mexico City where he resided with his wife (a physician) and two children.
Bajraj died on 22 June 2022 in Mexico City due to a brain tumor.[1]
Books
- El tamaño del dolor ("The size of the pain", 2005)
- Ruego albanés ("Albanian plea", 2000)
- Slaying the Mosquito, 2017
Screenplays
- Aro Tolbukhin, en la mente del asesino ("Aro Tolbukin, in the mind of the assassin", 2002)
See also
- Mexican literature
- Cinema of Mexico
References
- ^ "Kosovar poet Xhevdet Bajraj died". 22 June 2022. Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
External links
- Bajraj at the Goethe-Institut in Mexico (in Spanish)
- Vine a aprender español y para leer a Octavio Paz ("I came to learn Spanish and to read Octavio Paz"), article from El Universal (in Spanish)
- Review of Ruego albanés (in Spanish)
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