Anabela Basalo

Anabela Basalo (Serbian: Анабела Басало) (born September 4, 1972 in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer.

Biography

She graduated from the Third Gymnasium in Belgrade, and began studies of biology, which she never finished.

Before she wrote his first book she worked as seller, waitress, held her own coffeehouse, and worked in the time-sharing. Basalo responded to an ad where the girls were asked for the work on hot line – to read erotic stories – reportedly with desire to write them. After seven years writing the story was mature enough for the novel.

Works

Basalo attracted attention with her first novel, "Woman with Error". Not long after it she published another novel, "Fifth Love". Since then, she published novels "Erotic Stories", "Secrets of Women Pillows", etc.

Her books speak about the world of male domination, the world of money, power and urban Belgrade. Although it appears that her novels talk about sex, the story is in fact about the eternal themes: Searching for identity, loneliness, environment, what happens when someone decides to be different. She openly and honestly talk about male-female relations. Basalo does so even when writing for women magazines.

Critics said of her that she is an "author of a special sensibility, devoted to the personal understanding of the position of women in the world of men."

Trivia

In April 2004, she posed for the Serbian version of Playboy.^[1]

In April 2008, she participated in a campaign of gay organization Queeria named "Love on the streets! Hooligans in prisons!".^[2]

External links

• Interview with Anabela Basalo (Serbian)
• About the book "Woman with Error" (Serbian)

References