Kurdo Baksi

{{Short description|Swedish author (born 1965)}}

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Kurdo Baksi (born 5 June 1965) is a Swedish social commentator and author.

Baksi was born in Batman, Turkey, of Kurdish descent. He is the brother of Nalin Pekgul and the nephew of Mahmud Baksi. He came to Sweden in 1980 along with his parents and four siblings.

Kurdo Baksi founded the anti-racist magazine Svartvitt in 1987. During a five-year period between 1998 and 2002, he helped Svartvitt and the anti-racist magazine Expo to survive by a co-operation between the magazines which merged and became Svartvitt med Expo.{{cite web|url=http://expo.se/omexpo-bakgrund.html|title=Tidskriften Expo|accessdate=22 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215210736/http://expo.se/omexpo-bakgrund.html|archive-date=15 December 2010|url-status=dead}} Svarvitt was cancelled in 2002–03 and the magazine changed name to Expo again.[http://www.journalisten.se/artikel/4396/men-halla-kurdo-baksi Men hallå Kurdo Baksi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814145835/http://www.journalisten.se/artikel/4396/men-halla-kurdo-baksi |date=14 August 2009 }} journalisten.se Retrieved 22 January 2016

In 1992, he organized a big anti-racist manifestation in Sweden under the name "Utan invandrare stannar Sverige" (Without immigrants Sweden stops), with the purpose of marking immigrants' importance in the Swedish society. Baksi is also an active debater, and lecturer in questions about immigration, racism, and opinion-making for the creation of an independent Kurdistan.{{cite web|url=http://www.expressen.se/kvp/kultur/men-glom-vart-stor-kurdistan/|title=Men glöm vårt Stor-Kurdistan|work=Expressen|date=10 August 2012 |accessdate=22 January 2016}}

Baksi is a commentator and has written about topics such as Turkey, the Gray Wolves, Armenian genocide and armed conflict on Nagorno-Karabach.{{Cite web |title=DEBATT: Erdogans maktplaner hotar hela vår värld |url=https://www.expressen.se/debatt/erdogans-maktplaner-hotar-hela-var-varld/ |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=Expressen |date=12 October 2020 |language=sv}}{{Cite web |last=Baksi |first=Kurdo |date=15 April 2016 |title=Debattinlägg: "Kaplans intervju fick mig att hoppa ur tv-soffan" |url=https://www.svt.se/opinion/baksi-om-kaplan |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=SVT Nyheter |language=sv}}{{Cite news |last=Baksi |first=Kurdo |date=17 January 2022 |title=Efter 15 år: Vem beställde mordet på Hrant Dink? |language=sv |work=Svenska Dagbladet |url=https://www.svd.se/a/RrqVlW/efter-15-ar-vem-bestallde-mordet-pa-hrant-dink |access-date=2 September 2022 |issn=1101-2412}}

Two of Baksi's books have been translated into English: Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm (2010) covers Stieg Larsson's career as a journalist{{cite book |last1=Baksi |first1=Kurdo |title=Stieg Larsson: Our Days in Stockholm |date=2010 |publisher=Pegasus Books |isbn=978-1-60598-174-1}} and Stieg Larsson: The Man Behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: a memoir of a friendship (2011) focuses om Larsson's Millennium series of fiction novels.{{cite book |last1=Baksi |first1=Kurdo |title=Stieg Larsson : The Man Behind The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : a memoir of a friendship |date=21 June 2011 |publisher=Gallery Books |isbn=978-1-4516-4709-9}}