Miodrag Kojadinović ( sr-cyr, Миодраг Којадиновић, , born 1961) is a

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n linguist, interpreter, translator, writer, anthropologist, and theoretician of gender and sexuality.First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris, 2005

Academic involvement

Born in

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, he completed his academic education in Canada, Serbia, and Hungary, worked in three embassies (transferring to the Canadian Embassy to Belgrade when James Bissett was ambassador there), in the media in Canada and the Netherlands, carried out research at

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, the

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(UvA), and, under the mentorship of Eduardo P. Archetti, at

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. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the

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, where he also uses an unofficial Chinese version of his name: 妙谠 (simplified

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; in

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: Miào Dǎng; lit. "Merciful Counsel" or "Generous Advice"), first at

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, then at a '' colégio'' in

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, and since 2012 at

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Writing

Miodrag Kojadinović is a

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and writes in English, Serbian, Dutch, and French and speaks two dozen other European and Asian languages. He is best at short forms, focusing on short stories about localities, e.g. Macau, in a collection by global lusophone and China-based authors (published in three identical books in Chinese, Portuguese, and English) where he won the 1st prize in English, the Savamala old district of Belgrade (in Serbian), Shanghai (in English), or Pamplona (in Serbian), travelogues on Venice, Manila, Malacca, Vietnam, etc., and especially poetry (including short forms such as haiku, e.g. in ''Chiaroscuro'' for Ars Poetica). His collection of eight tales about China, ''Under Thunderous Skies'', has

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and

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as locations of the events. He has also published

erotica Erotica is literature or art that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different. Erotic art may use a ...

, including

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winning ''Érotiques Suprèmes''—and academic writing. His work has appeared in the US, Serbia (in Serbian and Hungarian), Canada, Russia, the Netherlands (in Dutch, West Frisian, and English), Slovenia, Spain, India, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, France, Israel, Montenegro, Scotland, England, Austria, Germany, Australia, and Croatia. He has also edited the first

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studies reader in Serbian (''Čitanka istopolnih studija'', 2001), the first major work on queer and gender non-standard issues in

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(next collection of papers with the same topic was published only in 2009, referencing ''Čitanka'').

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

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), shown at the

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(IDFA) as a part of an omnibus by the students graduating in Media Production in 1996, as well as at events in Budapest and Belgrade. His photography has also appeared in print and on the Internet.

Selected published works

*Author ** ** ** *
Kojadinović, Miodrag (1997). ''Liefdespijn - Geen Medicijn: Chagrin d'amour durera toute la vie''

*
Kojadinović, Miodrag (1996). Harder! Harder! - Un Cri PriMâLE''

*Contributor *
''Footnote #1: A Literary Journal of History'', USA, 2015
*
''Tincture Journal, Issue Nine'', Australia, Autumn 2015
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *Translator ** ** ** ]

Footnotes

Sources

Roberto Torres, Book Review: Assaracus, The Rainbow Hub, 2013
* Vetar po ocu, Frankfurt am Main 2012, in Serbian * First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris 2005, in English * РИСК Альманах: Западная лирика (RISK Almanach: Western Lyrics) by Дмитрий Кузьмин, 2002 () in Russian * Eurogames 2000, Zurich, Kulturagenda, in German * Semi-annual Report, No. 1 by The Campaign Against Homophobia; January–June 1998, in Serbian * "Na vodama vavilonskim" (By the Rivers of Babylon), Vreme weekly, Belgrade, 3 August 1992, in Serbian

External links

on translation of Pessoa's ''Antinous'' to Serbian
* :sh:Lezbejka#cite note-2, on contribution to defining LGBT terminology in Serbian * 30 Anni di movimento GLBT in Itali
in Italian

List of some of Miodrag Kojadinović's publication on the National Library of Australia site
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