Xhevdet Bajraj

Xhevdet Bajraj (Serbo-Croat: Dževdet Bajraj; 1960 – 22 June 2022) was an ethnic Albanian Kosovar poet and screenwriter who resided in Mexico.

Bajraj at a public poetry reading in Mexico City

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