Jasmina Tesanovic
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Jasmina Tesanovic was born on 7th March 1954 in Belgrade. She went
to the English primary school, "The International Port Said School"
in Cairo, Egypt. She graduated with G.C.E.'s in the "International School
of Milan" in Milan, Italy. She studied Letteres Modernes at the "Universita
Statel di Milano" and in 1976 she graduated with top grade with a thesis
in film on Andrej Tarkovsky. In 1977 she wrote a script together with
Umberto Silva "Difficile morire" and worked as his assistent diretctor
in the realization of the film by Italnolleggio "Cinecitta", Rome, Italy.
She was also the assitent director of Milos Jancso, in the film "Private
vices, public Virtues" in 1975 and to Zivojin Pavlovic in the film "The
odour of the Body". Living in Rome she worked as a correspondent for
various papers and radios. In 1978 she was one of the three organizers
of the first feminist Conference in eastern Europe, in Belgrade "Drug-ca
zena" at the Students' Cultural Centre. Coming back to Belgrade in 1979
she made short artistic films for TV Belgrade and video art performances.
She translated books from the Italian and English language. She also
writes books of fiction. Jasmina Tesnaovic published in Italy in "Espresso",
"Panta" "Grazia" and writes for news papers in Belgrade like Nasa Borba,
Vreme, Nin, Demokratija and many more... In 1994, together with other
two women she founded the first Women's publishing house in Serbia "94".
She teaches creative writing at Women's Studies of Belgrade and is a
full time, free-lance one of the most prominent writers in Yugoslavia
today. Her stories have been translated in Italy, Austria and the USA.
Jasmina Tesanovic was in Summer school of Cracow : new School of New
York, 1994; Summer School of central european University of Budapest
1996, International writers program of Iowa City, Iowa, 1997 on ARTSLINK
fellow grant. |
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