Jasmina Tešanović

Jasmina Tešanović (Serbian: Јасмина Тешановић) (born March 7, 1954) is a feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, publisher and filmmaker. She is the author of "Diary of a Political Idiot", a war diary written during the 1999 Kosovo War and widely distributed on the Internet. Ever since then she has been publishing all her work, diaries, stories and films on blogs and other Internet media.

List of Books

Non-Fiction

*Processo agli Scorpioni "(Edizioni XII, Italia, 2008)"
*Matrimony "(Planeta Publisher, Barcelona, Spain, 2003, Feminist Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004)"
*Me and My Multicultural Street "(Feminist Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia, 2001)"
*Diary of a Political Idiot "(Cleis Press, San Francisco, California, 2000)" - published in 12 languages
*The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia "(University of California Press, Berkley, San Francisco, California, 1997)"

Fiction

*The Necromancers/Nekromanti "(play 2007)"
*Nefertiti Was Here/Nefertiti je bila ovde "(Belgrade Women's Studies, Centar za Zenske Studije, Beograd 2007)"
*They just do it "(play, Feminist Notebooks, Belgrade, Serbia 1998)"
*The Mermaids "(Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia 1997)" - Borislav Pekić Award recipient
*A Women’s Book "(Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia 1996)"
*In Exile "(Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia 1994)"
*The Invisible Book "(KOV, Vrsac, Yugoslavia 1992)"

Essays and Short Stories

"(partial list)"

*Baghdad/Belgrade Correspondence in "Writing the World": On Globalization "(editors Wandee Pryor and Rothenberg, MIT Press, Boston Massachusetts 2005)"
*Letter to My Imaginary American Friend, Stop the Next War "(editors Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, Inner Ocean, San Francisco, California 2005)"
*Women in Black, Belgrade, Women in War, Women on War "(edited by Daniela Gioseffi, Feminist Press, New York, New York, 2003)"
*Mermaids, Ljubica (short stories) “Casablanca Serbia”, edited by Nicole Janigro, Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy 2003
*The Diary of a Political Idiot "(Granta 67, Autumn, London, UK 1999)"
*Lies and Secrets, Index on Censorship "(London, UK 1999)"
*In addition, she has had many short essays published on Boing Boing, including [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/20/jasmina_tesanovic_th.html "The Long Goodbye,"] concerning the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic
*Self-translation of Me and My Multicultural Street/Ja i moja multikulturalna ulica by Jasmina Tešanović "(Bojana Kovačević’s graduation thesis, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, Bellaterra, 2008)"

List of Films

*Difficile Morire, artistic collaboration on Umberto Silva's film, "(Rome 1977)"
*Mother and Sinner, with Rade Vladic "(Belgrade 1978)"
*Morning Midday Evening, with Rade Vladic, film based on a short story by David Albahari "(Belgrade 1978)"
*Nefertiti Was Here "(Belgrade 1978)"
*Nefertiti Was Here in Belgrade "(Belgrade 2003)"
*Jasmina's Diary, with Dinko Tucakovic "(Belgrade 1999)"
* [http://www.vimeo.com/1698115/ Stencil Art in Serbia "(Belgrade 2007)"]
*A minute to Twelve "(Belgrade 2007)"
* [http://www.vimeo.com/1759148/ Invisible Cities "(Belgrade 2008)"]
*Rafts "(Belgrade 2008)"
*Participation "(Belgrade 2008)"
*Blogs "(Belgrade 2008)"
* [http://www.vimeo.com/1849609/ Recycling Romany "(Belgrade 2008)"]

Personal

Tešanović was married to Serbian poet Raša Livada with whom she has a daughter. She was in a relationship with Serbian writer David Albahari.

In 2005, she married American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.

External links

* [http://blog.b92.net/blog/59/Jasmina%20Tesanovic/ Jasmina Tesanovic weblog on b92]
* [http://www.alexandria-press.com/Bio/jasmina_tesanovic.htm Source for this article]
* [http://www.womeninblack.org/index.html Women in Black (international) website]
* [http://www.codepink4peace.org/ Code Pink]
* [http://www.boingboing.net/nefertit.html Nefertiti Was Here]
* [http://falsepercezioni.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-jasmina-tesanovic.html Interview w. Jasmina Tesanovic]
* [http://falsepercezioni.blogspot.com/2008/02/serbian-elections-according-to-jasmina.html Serbian elections according to Jasmina Tešanovic (interview)]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4198789124163162052&hl=en Jasmina Tesanovic's speech at LIFT Conference 2008 (inglese)]