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Mira Adanja Polak ( sr-cyr, Мира Адања Полак; born 22 August 1942) is a Serbian journalist, producer, researcher, author and TV host. Her TV show ''Mira Adanja-Polak – Exclusive'' is broadcast weekly on
Radio Television Serbia Radio Television of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Радио-телевизија Србије, sr-Lat, Radio-televizija Srbije, italics=yes; abbr. RTS/PTC) is Serbia's public broadcaster. It broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming thro ...
. She has a large number of exclusive interviews with famous artists, politicians, businessmen, celebrities and royal family members. Interviews include: Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Lord Carrington, Lord David Owen, Robert MacNamara, Willy Brandt, Armand Hammer, Lawrence Eagleburger, Valery Giscard D'Estaing, Graham Green, Fredrick Forsyth, Peter Ustinov, Igor Ustinov, Art Buchwald, Mstislav Rostropovic, Carlo Ponti, Sofia Loren, Shimon Peres, long lasting president of Israel , Heinz Fischer, president of Austria, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Elie Wiesel, Oriana Falacci, Indira Ghandi, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, David Bailey, Kirk Douglas, Jovanka Broz, Erica Jong, Princess Leonide Romanoff, Prince Michael Feodorovich Romanoff, Bojko Borisov, prime minister of Bulgaria, Borut Pahor, president of Slovenia, Ivo Pogorelic, pianist, Hugo Vickers, biographer of the British royal familly, Lord Aitken.


Investigative documentaries

Mira Adanja-Polak is the author of over 400 investigative documentaries: * Risk of Love (New York) – introducing the problem of AIDS in Eastern Europe; * Hospis – the art of dying * File on
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* Russian Cemetery in the West (Paris) * Meeting the Son of Hitler's Assassin (Graf von Staufenberg) (Munich) * Life of Aircraft Carrier Nimitz * Royal Divorce (London) *
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– New York * Visit to a Women's Jail – Killing the Husband (Belgrade) * Road of a Drug (Amsterdam) * Widow of Communism (Tito's wife Jovanka Broz after 16 years of silence) (Belgrade) * Hand of St. John the Baptist (Montenegro) * Woman Without Breasts (Belgrade) * Adopting a Handicapped Child *
Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
(Before and After) * Behind Closed Doors (West on Balkans) * Love Letters From Mileva to
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
* The Balkans and Yugoslavia 1941–45 * Television series on AIDS


Working Assignments

Foreign desk consultant for
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in London – working on the
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programme. During the Bosnian Conflict she secured interviews for the programme with the Serbian President,
Slobodan Miloševic Slobodan ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан) is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name which means "free" (''sloboda'' / meaning "freedom, liberty") used among other South Slavs as well. It was coined by Serbian liberal politician Vladimir Jovanović (p ...
, and the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs – Radovan Karadžic and General
Ratko Mladic Ratko (Cyrillic script: Ратко) is a male given name of Slavic origin. It is a diminutive form of the names Ratibor and Ratimir. Notable people *Ratko Čolić (1918–1999), Serbian footballer * Ratko Dautovski, Macedonian percussionist, ...
. These interviews were included in special reports on the crisis in Srebrenica. They achieved International Broadcasting awards for Channel Four News – ITN. Field Producer for People Magazine (New York) on the first visit of Royal family to Belgrade after 60 years of exile presenting the new elected President Vojislav Koštunica to Western world in special profile, NBC TV's Nightline programme – covering the visit of
Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia ( sr, italic=yes, Jelisaveta Karađorđević / Јелисавета Карађорђевић; born 7 April 1936) is a member of the royal House of Karađorđević, a human rights activist and a former presidential ...
to her native country. Contributor for The Dictionary of Art (London) – supplying various articles and photographs on Eastern European Art. Exclusive Reports for
Royalty Magazine ''Royalty Magazine'' or ''Royalty Monthly'' as it was originally called was founded in 1981 by journalist Bob Houston. Houston had previously been the launch editor of ''Majesty Magazine'', a similar publication. ''Royalty Magazines launch coincided ...
(London). Consultant to
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Pierre Salinger's Broadcasts – during the
1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...
in Sarajevo.


Publications

* "Amerikanci" ("The Americans") – the result of research into American Society.


Publication entries about Mira Adanja-Polak

* International Who's Who 2013, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group * The International Who's Who of Women 2002Sleeman, Elizabet
The International Who's Who of Women 2002
, ''
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'', 2001
* International Headers in Achievement 1991 * International Who's Who of Intellectuals 1992 * British National Union of Journalist Freelance Directory * Who's Who (Yugoslavia)


References


External links

* Serbian journalists Living people 1942 births Writers from Budapest Serbian women writers Serbian writers Serbian television personalities Serbian journalists University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni {{Serbia-writer-stub