Miodrag Kojadinović ( sr-Cyrl, Миодраг Којадиновић, , born 22 November 1961) is a Canadian-Serbian 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

Negotin Negotin ( sr-cyrl, Неготин, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of Southern and Eastern Serbia, eastern Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bo ...

, 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

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

, the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

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

Oslo University The University of Oslo (; ) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick University, the university was established in 1811 as the de facto Norwegian conti ...

. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the

People’s Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the e ...

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

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

; in

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

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

Guangxi University Guangxi University () is a provincial public university in Nanning, Guangxi, China. It is affiliated with the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and co-funded by the regional government and the Ministry of Education. The university is part of P ...

Nanning Nanning; is the capital of the Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China, southern China. It is known as the "Green City (绿城) " because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South of Guangxi, Nanning ...

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ( Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the ...

, then at a '' colégio'' in

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

, and since 2012 at

Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University (; SYSU) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, SASTIND, and Guangdong Provincial Government. The university is p ...

Guangdong Province ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

Writing

Miodrag Kojadinović is a

polyglot Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...

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

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

and

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

as locations of the events. He has also published

erotica Erotica is art, literature or photography 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. Erot ...

, including

Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary Foundation, Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ+ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ+ literatur ...

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

GLBT LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The group i ...

studies reader in

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * Pertaining to Serbia in Southeast Europe; in particular **Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans ** Serbian language ** Serbian culture **Demographics of Serbia, includes other ethnic groups within the co ...

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

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

(next collection of papers with the same topic was published only in 2009, referencing ''Čitanka''). He was a guest on annual academic research fellowships in Oslo in 2002 and Utrecht/Amsterdam 1996/1997, on writing events and residences in

Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

for the

Eurogames The EuroGames are an LGBT+ multi-sport event in Europe, licensed by the EGLSF (European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation) to a local city host each year and organised (most often) by one or more of the federation's member clubs. Similar to the G ...

in 2000 (one of only three foreign artists invited, the others not writers), Macau literary festival in 2012, the two Balkan ones in Split in 2010 and

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

2017 both facilitated by th
organisation
for German-South East European literary cooperation, аnd in 2023 in

Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...

, a

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City of Literature.

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 School of the Arts The Utrecht School for the Arts () is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in City of Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, Netherlands. The school opened for student enrollment in September 1987. Overview The institution has 6 ...

), shown at the

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Description IDFA is an independent, international meeting place for audiences ...

(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 *
China beyond the binary: Race, Gender, and the Use of Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2019
*
Sanctuary: Short Fiction from Queer Asia anthology, Signal 8 Press, Hong Kong, 2019
*
Queer Around the World Too anthology, Qommunicate Publishing, USA, 2019
*
Kleinkrieg und Frieden: Eine Collage internationaler Familiengeschichten, BoD Norderstedt, Germany, 2018
*
''Footnote #1: A Literary Journal of History'', USA, 2015
*
''Tincture Journal, Issue Nine'', Australia, Autumn 2015
** ** ** ** ** ** ** Sheppard, Simon, ed. (2000
Rough Stuff. Alyson Publications.
** ** *Editor *
Birkensnake VI: Neverending Tales (co-editor with Megan Milks), Providence, USA, 2013
*
Čitanka istopolnih studija, Miodrag Kojadinović (ed), Beograd, Serbia, 2001
*Translator ** ** ] *
Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo / First There Was a Letter Ljiljana Zivkovic (ed), Labris, Serbia 2005
**

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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