Miodrag Kojadinović is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

-Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n poet, linguist, interpreter, translator, erotica writer and theoretician of gender and sexuality.

Academic Involvement

He completed his academic education in Canada, Serbia, and Hungary, worked in three embassies, in the media in Canada and Holland, carried out research at Utrecht University

Utrecht University

Utrecht University is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors....

, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and Oslo University. Since 2005 he has been teaching at Guangxi University

Guangxi University

Guangxi University is a provincial university, located in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, China. It is also commonly abbreviated as .-History:Guangxi University was established in October 1928...

 in Nanning

Nanning

Nanning is the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. It is known as the "Green City" because of its abundance of lush tropical foliage.-History:...

, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, where he also uses an unofficial Chinese version of his name: 妙谠 (simplified Mandarin).

Writing

Miodrag Kojadinović is a polyglot

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...

 and writes in English, Serbian, Dutch, and French and speaks two dozen other European and Asian languages. His work has been featured in anthologies in the US, Serbia (in Serbian and Hungarian), Canada, Russia, the Netherlands (in Dutch and English), Slovenia, India, Montenegro, the UK, and Croatia.

He edited the first GLBT studies reader in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

 (Čitanka istopolnih studija, 2001), the first major work on GLBT issues in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

  (a collection of papers with the same topic was published in Niš

Niš

Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,...

 in 2009, referencing Čitanka). Even though in his own writings Miodrag Kojadinović rejects social (de)constructivism

Social constructivism

Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge that applies the general philosophical constructionism into social settings, wherein groups construct knowledge for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings...

 of the 1990s and defends the idea of an essentialist

Essentialism

In philosophy, essentialism is the view that, for any specific kind of entity, there is a set of characteristics or properties all of which any entity of that kind must possess. Therefore all things can be precisely defined or described...

 Queer identity throughout history, the Reader contains both sides of the discourse, allowing the Serbian public to explore the concepts in Serbian for the first time.

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 University of Applied Sciences), shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (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
• Contributor

Sources

• First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris 2005 bilingual in English/Serbian
• РИСК Альманах: Западная лирика (RISK Almanach: Western Lyrics) by Дмитрий Кузьмин, 2002 (ISBN 5-900506-98-3) in Russian
• Eurogames 2000, Zurich, Kulturagenda (in German)
• Semi-annual Report, No. 1 by The Campaign Against Homophobia; January–June, 1998 (in Serbian)

External links

• on translation of Pessoa's Antinous to Serbian
• on a paper on Anne Frank and Amsterdam tourism industry
• on contribution to defining LGBT terminology in Serbian
• 30 Anni di movimento GLBT in Italia in Italian
• List of some of Miodrag Kojadinović's publication on the National Library of Australia site