Miodrag Kojadinović
Miodrag Kojadinović (, , born 1961) 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 (transferring to the Canadian Embassy to Belgrade when James Bissett was ambassador there), 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. 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 "" 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, Serbia (in Serbian and Hungarian), Canada, Russia, the  Netherlands (in Dutch, West Frisian, and English), 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 ("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"). 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 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.