Miodrag Kojadinović


Miodrag Kojadinović is a Canadian-Serbian linguist, interpreter, translator, writer, anthropologist, and theoretician of gender and sexuality.

Academic involvement

Born in Negotin, he completed his academic education in Canada, Serbia, and Hungary, worked in three embassies, in the media in Canada and the Netherlands, carried out research at Utrecht University, the University of Amsterdam, and, under the mentorship of Eduardo P. Archetti, at Oslo University. 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, first at Guangxi University in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, then at a :pt:Colégio|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 where he won the 1st prize in English, the Savamala old district of Belgrade, Shanghai, or Pamplona, travelogues on Venice, Manila, Malacca, Vietnam, etc., and especially poetry. 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, Serbia, Canada, Russia, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, India, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, France, Israel, Montenegro, Scotland, England, Austria, Germany, Australia, and Croatia.
He has also edited the first GLBT studies reader in Serbian, the first major work on queer and gender non-standard issues in Belgrade.

Other media

His nomadic life between continents/countries is the topic of the documentary Double Exit, shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 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