
Xhevdet Bajraj (
Serbo-Croat: ''Dževdet Bajraj''; 1960 – 22 June 2022) was an ethnic
Albanian
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Kosovar poet
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and
screenwriter
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who resided in Mexico.
Biography
Born in the
Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Bajraj was granted
residency
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** Permanent residency, indefinite residence within a country despite not having citizenship
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in Mexico as a
refugee
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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
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where he resided with his wife (a physician) and two children.
Bajraj died on 22 June 2022 in
Mexico City
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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
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*
Cinema of Mexico
References
External links
Bajrajat the
Goethe-Institut
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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''
Reviewof ''Ruego albanés''
1960 births
2022 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer in Mexico
Kosovan poets
Kosovan screenwriters
Mexican screenwriters
Mexican male poets
Yugoslav poets
Mexican people of Albanian descent
Mexican people of Kosovan descent
Kosovan refugees
20th-century Mexican male writers
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