Jasmina Tešanović

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Jasmina Tesanović
Jasmina Tesanović

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.

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[edit] List of Books

[edit] 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)

[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

(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 "The Long Goodbye,"concerning the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic

[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.

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

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