Miodrag Kojadinović

Miodrag Kojadinović (born 1961) is a Canadian-Serbian poet, linguist, interpreter, translator, erotica writer and theoretician of gender and sexuality.^[1][2]

Academic Involvement

He completed his academic education in Canada, Serbia, and Hungary, worked in three embassies, in the media in Canada and Holland, carried out research at Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and Oslo University.^[3] Since 2005 he has been teaching at Guangxi University in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, where he also uses an unofficial Chinese version of his name: 妙谠 (simplified Mandarin).

Writing

Miodrag Kojadinović is a polyglot and writes in English, Serbian, Dutch, and French and speaks two dozen other European and Asian languages. His work has been featured in anthologies in the US,^[4][5] Serbia (in Serbian^[6] and Hungarian^[7]), Canada, Russia,^[8] the Netherlands (in Dutch^[9] and English), Slovenia, India, Montenegro, the UK,^[10] and Croatia.^[11]

He edited the first GLBT studies reader in Serbian (Čitanka istopolnih studija, 2001), the first major work on GLBT issues in Belgrade ^[1] (a collection of papers with the same topic was published in Niš in 2009, referencing Čitanka).^[12] Even though in his own writings Miodrag Kojadinović rejects social (de)constructivism of the 1990s and defends the idea of an essentialist Queer identity throughout history, the Reader contains both sides of the discourse, allowing the Serbian public to explore the concepts in Serbian for the first time.

Other Media

His nomadic life between continents/countries is the topic of the documentary Double Exit (director Kim Meijer's graduation work for her MA course at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences), shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) as a part of an omnibus by the students graduating in Media Production in 1996, as well as at events in Budapest^[13] and Belgrade.

His photography has also appeared in print^[14] and on the Internet.^[15]

Selected published works

• Author
  • Kojadinović, Miodrag (2001). Čitanka istopolnih studija. Program istopolnih studija. ISBN 9788690260515. 
  • Kojadinović, Miodrag (2004). Antinoj. Rende. ISBN 9788683897261. 
• Contributor
  • Ford, Michael, ed (1996). Best Gay Erotica, 1996. Cleis Press. ISBN 9781573440523. 
  • Sheppard, Simon, ed (April 2000). Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power. Alyson Publications. ISBN 9781555835200. 
  • Land, Kevin, ed (June 2000). Unlimited Desires: An International Anthology of Bisexual Erotica. BiPress. ISBN 9780953881604. 
  • Brown, Angela, ed (2004). Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer. Alyson Publications. ISBN 9781555838508. 
  • Maderas, Linda, ed (2005). Pažnja, dečaci rastu!. SIL. ISBN 9788683483440. 

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris, 2005
2. ^ Semi-annual Report, No. 1, Campaign Against Homophobia; 1998
3. ^ Sosialantropologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Gjestestipendiater 2002 [1]
4. ^ Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power, ed. Simon Sheppard, Alyson, 2000
5. ^ Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer, ed. Angela Brown, Alyson Publications, 2004
6. ^ Mr Dejan Vukićević, DELO (1955-1992): Bibliografija, Institut za književnost i umetnost, Narodna biblioteka Srbije, Matica srpska, Beograd 2007 [2]
7. ^ Symposion, Újvidék [Novi Sad], Dec. 1997 [3]
8. ^ РИСК Альманах: Западная лирика, Дмитрий Кузьмин, 2002
9. ^ Leuke Jongens, Ooievaar/Prometheus, Amsterdam, 1997 (reprint 1998)
10. ^ Unlimited Desires: An International Anthology of Bisexual Erotica, ed. Kevin Land, BiPress, 2000
11. ^ excerpt from a writing on a residence in Croatia
12. ^ Teme: Casopis za drustvene nauke, Univerzitet u Nišu 1/2009
13. ^ Pride HU 1999 Programok
14. ^ e.g. in The Writers Block magazine
15. ^ Signs of Our Times (The Movie, HD)

Sources

• First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris 2005 bilingual in English/Serbian
• РИСК Альманах: Западная лирика (RISK Almanach: Western Lyrics) by Дмитрий Кузьмин, 2002 (ISBN 5-900506-98-3) in Russian
• Eurogames 2000, Zurich, Kulturagenda (in German)
• Semi-annual Report, No. 1 by The Campaign Against Homophobia; January–June, 1998 (in Serbian)

External links

• on translation of Pessoa's Antinous to Serbian
• on a paper on Anne Frank and Amsterdam tourism industry
• on contribution to defining LGBT terminology in Serbian
• 30 Anni di movimento GLBT in Italia in Italian
• List of some of Miodrag Kojadinović's publication on the National Library of Australia site

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Date of birth	1961
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