Miodrag Kojadinović (, , born 22 November 1961) is a Canadian-Serbian linguist, interpreter, translator, writer, anthropologist, and theoretician of gender and sexuality.First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris, 2005Semi-annual Report, No. 1, Campaign Against Homophobia; 1998
Academic involvement Born in Negotin,cf. "Negotin - China - Ilienci meet the writer Miodrag Kojadinović" he completed his academic education in Canada, Serbia, and Hungary, worked in three embassies (transferring to the Canadian Embassy to Belgrade when James Bissett was ambassador thereCf. biblio note to the poem "I ispuni se mera vremena" in Delo literary magazine, Belgrade, Serbia, 1992 (poem also published in English as "Until the Measure of Time Was Fulfilled" in Prism International, Winter 1995 but without the note)), in the media in Canada and the Netherlands, carried out research at Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and, under the mentorship of Eduardo P. Archetti, at Oslo University.Sosialantropologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Gjestestipendiater 2002 Since 2005 he has been teaching in the People’s Republic of China, where he also uses an unofficial Chinese version of his name: 妙谠 (simplified Mandarin; in pinyin: Miào Dǎng; lit. "Merciful Counsel" or "Generous Advice"), first at Guangxi University in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, then at a colégio in Macau, and since 2012 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong Province.
Writing Miodrag Kojadinović is a polyglot and writes in English, Serbian, Dutch, and French and speaks two dozen other European and Asian languages.
He is best at short forms, focusing on short stories about localities, e.g. Macau, in a collection by global lusophone and China-based authors (published in three identical books in Chinese, Portuguese, and English) where he won the 1st prize in English, the Savamala old district of Belgrade (in Serbian), Shanghai (in English), or Pamplona (in Serbian), travelogues on Venice, Manila, Malacca, Vietnam, etc., and especially poetry (including short forms such as haiku, e.g. in Chiaroscuro for Ars Poetica). His collection of eight tales about China, Under Thunderous Skies, has Nanning, Shanghai, Macau, Hong Kong and Guangzhou as locations of the events. He has also published erotica, including Lambda Literary Award winning Érotiques Suprèmes—and academic writing.
His work has appeared in the US,Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power, ed. Simon Sheppard, Alyson, 2000Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer, ed. Angela Brown, Alyson Publications, 2004 Serbia (in SerbianMr Dejan Vukićević, DELO (1955-1992): Bibliografija, Institut za književnost i umetnost, Narodna biblioteka Srbije, Matica srpska, Beograd 2007 and HungarianSymposion, Újvidék [Novi Sad], December 1997and Híd, January 2015), Canada, Russia,РИСК Альманах: Западная лирика, Дмитрий Кузьмин, 2002and Interpoezia Magazine (2014) the Netherlands (in Dutch,Leuke Jongens, Ooievaar/Prometheus, Amsterdam, 1997 (reprint 1998) West Frisian,including online and English), Slovenia, Spain,E.g. the trilingual book Mambo Poa 3, 2010 India, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, France,Recours au Poème Israel, Montenegro,Rezultati konkursa-Bijela 2012 Scotland, England, Austria,in Balkan Delikatessen Germany, Australia, and Croatia.
He has also edited the first GLBT studies reader in Serbian (Čitanka istopolnih studija, 2001), the first major work on queer and gender non-standard issues in Belgrade (next collection of papers with the same topic was published only in 2009, referencing Čitanka).
He was a guest on annual academic research fellowships in Oslo in 2002http://www.sv.uio.no/sai/om/strategi/planer-rapporter/rapport/aarsrapport2002.pdf Report by the Department of Social Anthropology of Oslo University and Utrecht/Amsterdam 1996/1997, on writing events and residences in Zurich for the Eurogames in 2000 (one of only three foreign artists invited, the others not writers), Macau literary festival in 2012, the two Balkan ones in Split in 2010 and Sofia 2017 both facilitated by the Traduki organisation for German-South East European literary cooperation, аnd in 2023 in Nanjing, a UNESCO City of Literature.
Other media His nomadic life between continents/countries is the topic of the documentary Double ExitRefer to the IMDb site (director Kim Meijer's graduation work for her MA course at the Utrecht School of the Arts), 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
Kojadinović, Miodrag (1997). Liefdespijn - Geen Medicijn: Chagrin d'amour durera toute la vie, Utrecht University Kojadinović, Miodrag (1996). 'Harder! Harder! - Un Cri PriMâLE, University of Amsterdam Contributor China beyond the binary: Race, Gender, and the Use of Story, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2019 Sanctuary: Short Fiction from Queer Asia anthology, Signal 8 Press, Hong Kong, 2019 Queer Around the World Too anthology, Qommunicate Publishing, USA, 2019 Kleinkrieg und Frieden: Eine Collage internationaler Familiengeschichten, BoD Norderstedt, Germany, 2018 Footnote #1: A Literary Journal of History, USA, 2015 Tincture Journal, Issue Nine, Australia, Autumn 2015
Sheppard, Simon, ed. (2000) Rough Stuff. Alyson Publications.
Editor Birkensnake VI: Neverending Tales (co-editor with Megan Milks), Providence, USA, 2013 Čitanka istopolnih studija, Miodrag Kojadinović (ed), Beograd, Serbia, 2001 Translator
] Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo / First There Was a Letter Ljiljana Zivkovic (ed), Labris, Serbia 2005
Footnotes
Sources Roberto Torres, Book Review: Assaracus, The Rainbow Hub, 2013 Vetar po ocu, Frankfurt am Main 2012, in Serbian First There Was a Letter/Prvo je stiglo jedno pismo, Labris 2005, in English РИСК Альманах: Западная лирика (RISK Almanach: Western Lyrics) by Дмитрий Кузьмин, 2002 () in Russian Eurogames 2000, Zurich, Kulturagenda, in German Semi-annual Report, No. 1 by The Campaign Against Homophobia; January–June 1998, in Serbian "Na vodama vavilonskim" (By the Rivers of Babylon), Vreme weekly, Belgrade, 3 August 1992, in Serbian
External links on translation of Pessoa's Antinous to Serbian 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