Klara Buda is a journalist, writer, and publisher.

She is the Co-Founder and Publishing Director of Éditions Bilingue, where she shapes the house’s editorial vision and champions the translation of undertranslated literatures into major European languages, contributing to the emergence of a shared European literary space grounded in multilingual exchange. Notable titles include Enver Hoxha: Le tyran sanguinaire and Voyage entre Illyrie et Albanie, Via Egnatia.

An Editor-in-Chief in Radio Journalism at Radio France Internationale (RFI) in Paris, she led the Albanian Department of this French public broadcaster from the fondation until its closure in 2011. Earlier in her career, she worked with UNESCO and the BBC, gaining extensive international experience in media and cultural communication. As Lecturer she has directed numerous journalism training programs across Southeast Europe, including Albania, contributing to the formation of a new generation of media professionals.

In 2013, she served as External Advisor on International Affairs and Media to the Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, supporting the ministry’s global communication strategy during a pivotal diplomatic period.

Ms. Buda is the co-author and second signatory of “ The fate of Kosovo common declaration on basic principles“, the petition of French Intellectuals to the French Government, and to the International, Community to stop ethnic cleansing and terror in Kosovo, in June 1998.

Ms. Buda holds a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Studies in “Methods of History and Art History” from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, where she also earned a Master’s degree in Art History.

Klara BUDA by Fadil BERISHA ©

Her university and literary work includes, among others, A Literary Biography of Mitrush Kuteli, written in French, http://bit.ly/NtYg0t, as well as her translation from Albanian into French of Mitrush Kuteli’s novel Mon Village sait Boire le Raki (In My Village, We Know How to Drink Raki). Her novel Kloroform (Chloroform) (Dudaj, Tirana, 2009) received both critical and public acclaim and affirms the conviction that no system is capable of completely erasing individual freedom and will. Other boks are Kosova Mon Amour, Prishtina, 2016, First Essay Prize, Prishtina Book Fair, 2017; Rrëfenja Kuteliane, Ombra, Tirana, 2017; Pëshpërime Gruaje, MAPO, Tirana, 2017.

During the Kosovo War, Ms. Buda was the Director of the Albanian Department at Radio France Internationale and collaborated with different French newspapers. She is the founder of the TV & Film Production Studio Beratinus and the online gazette KlaraBudaPost.com; as well as the TV show Shqipëria si e Dua (Albania, the way I like it.) hosted and directed on BronxNet TV, NY), which, through portraits of prominent and successful figures, analyzes Albanian complexity and the evolution of traditional rites and customs during the years of transition, both within and beyond national borders.

In 2017, she was appointed head of a council to promote peace between Kosovo and Serbia by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, after having presented a platform of ideas to bring together scholars, human rights activists, and victims to articulate the best way to approach the Kosovo–Serbia dialogue, with the goal of making proposals to the government and other decision-makers.

Klara Buda is of Albanian ethnicity and French nationality and shares her time between Paris and New York. Since 2013, Klara Buda has served as a Senior Consultant on communication strategy and peace-building, and since 2019 she has been a Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School.