Jasmina Tešanović
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Jasmina Tešanović (Serbian: Јасмина Тешановић) (born March 7, 1954) is a feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, publisher and filmmaker. She was one of the organizers of the first Feminist conference in Eastern Europe "Drug-ca Zena" in 1978, in Belgrade. With Slavica Stojanovic, she ran the first feminist publishing house in the Balkans "Feminist 94" for 10 years. 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.
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[edit] 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.[citation needed] During the nineties, she was married to journalist and writer Dusan Velickovic
In 2005, she married American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Non-fiction
- Nefertiti (Stampa Alternativa, Italy 2009)
- Processo agli Scorpioni (Edizioni XII, 2008, Stampa Alternativa, 2009, Italy)
- 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Essays and short stories
This list is not exhaustive.
- "All Patients are Refugees" (Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies, edited by Sayantani Das Gupta and Marsha Hurst, The Kent State University Press, 2007)
- "Baghdad/Belgrade Correspondence" (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)
- "We Are All Women In Black" (Women on War, edited by Daniela Gioseffi, Feminist Press, New York, New York, 2003)
- "Mermaids, Ljubica" (short stories) (Casablanca Serbia, editor 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)
- Many short essays published on the blog Boing Boing, including "The Long Goodbye", concerning the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic
- "Ja i moja multikulturalna ulica" (Feminist 94, Belgrade, 2001; translated into English as "Me and my multicultural street" in Bojana Kovačević’s Master's thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultat de Traducció i d'Interpretació, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2008)
- Other writings for newspapers and TV including Serbian weekly NIN; Serbian daily Nasa Borba; The Washington Post; Philadelphia Inquirer; L'Espresso; Panorama; ABC TV; El Pais; Al Jazeera; Flair; Grazia. She has a column in La Stampa, Italy, "I Globalisti" (together with her husband Bruce Sterling) and Yellow Cab, Belgrade.
[edit] 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)
- Stencil Art in Serbia (Belgrade 2007)
- A Minute to Twelve (Belgrade 2007)
- Invisible Cities (Belgrade 2008)
- Rafts (Belgrade 2008)
- Participation (Belgrade 2008)
- Blogs (Belgrade 2008)
- Recycling Romany (Belgrade 2008)
