Klara Buda is a French Albanian journalist and writer. She is the former head of the Albanian Department of

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(RFI), which she left in 2010. Buda has also worked for

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and the

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. She is of French nationality and Albanian ethnicity. Buda writes prose, poetry, fiction and TV plays.

Biography

Klara Buda was born in

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. After graduating in modern literature at the

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, she studied history of art at the

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. In 1997, she embarked on her career as a freelance journalist at the

before joining

(RFI). She worked for a short period at

's Communication Division in 1998 but returned to RFI in 1999, first as a specialized journalist, then from 2005 as a principal editor. Appointed editor in chief in 2006, she headed RFI's Albanian department until 2010. In 2011, she founded in

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the "Beratinus Media", a TV and film production company, and in 2013 Klarabudapost.com, an online site promoting global citizen journalism. She was awarded the Francophone Personality of the Year prize from the

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in 2013. In 2014, she created, hosted and directed ''Albania I love You'', a TV show, which through portraits of prominent figures examines the evolution of traditional Albanian rites and customs during its period of political transition years, both in Albania itself and internationally. After serving as an external advisor to the Albanian Foreign Affairs Ministry in 2012, in 2015 Buda founded the New York Albanian Cultural Diplomacy Corporation with a view to promoting Albanian culture in the United States. Chloroform novel:« Set in Communist Albania brutal regime, the novel provides a compelling insight into the regime’s production and reproduction of a new type of human being. It focuses on the oppressive system’s efforts to establish a new kind of society, run by the fear. » M. Gueguen, '
Le courrier Des Balkans, Paris, France
« Chloroform, is marked by identity questions and exploration of the role of free individuals in totalitarian systems. Buda describes what she calls "islands of inner freedom," which vary from one individual to another but help each of them survive, despite the dictatorship. » (S. Habilaj, Tiranaobserver, 11. 2. 2010)

Bibliography

* *Buda, Klara (2017)

- Novel, UET Mapo Publishing, Tirana, *Buda, Klara (2017),

', Ombra GVG Publishing, Tirana, *Buda, Klara (2016), ''Kosova Mon Amour'' - a Collection of essays on Kosova War and Totalitarian Regime in Albania. Publishing Pema, Pristine, March 2017 *Buda, Klara (2016),''They like to drink Raki in my village'' – Novel by Mitrush Kuteli, translated from Albanian to French
Éditions Fauves
Paris, 2016. *Buda, Klara (1997), University work
Mitrush Kuteli, Literary Biography
'' in French.

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External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Buda, Klara Living people Albanian women writers Albanian writers French women journalists 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women writers 1964 births People from Elbasan Albanian emigrants to France

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