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 Panorc, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, 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.
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
External links Bajraj at the Goethe-Institut in Mexico Vine a aprender español y para leer a Octavio Paz ("I came to learn Spanish and to read Octavio Paz"), article from El Universal Review of Ruego albanés