Mehmet Kraja (born June 27, 1952) is an Albanian writer, literary critic and journalist.
[1] He was born on 27 June 1952, in Kostanjica (Kështenjë) in Bar Municipality (Kraja region) in present-day Montenegro.
He studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Pristina.
[1] In 1992–1999, he lived in Tirana as representative of the then unrecognized internationally government of Kosovo and as editor of the newspaper Rilindja.
[2] He has written twelve novels, four collections of short stories, ten theatrical plays and five non-fiction works.