Mirjana Stefanović


Mirjana Stefanović is a Serbian writer.

Biography

She has lived in Niš, Kosančić and Novi Sad, and has been living in Belgrade since 1951. She has attended school in Novi Sad, Belgrade and Delhi, India. She holds an MA in English literature. In the 1966–1967 period she worked as a journalist, a contributor to Radio Belgrade's Third Programme, and from 1967 to 1973 she worked as a redactor for Radio Belgrade's Children's Programme. From 1974 to 1991 she worked as an editor in the Nolit publishing house. She established the Holiday edition, which she edited for sixteen years, within the framework of which she published more than fifty books for the young selected from the corpus of world and domestic literature. She also participated in editing poetry and was the editor of the Interesting Science edition. She was the editor-in-chief of the First Book edition at Matica srpska and a member of the editorial staff of Letopis Matice srpske.

Books for adults

Radio Belgrade and other Yugoslav radio stations have broadcast a number of Mirjana Stefanović's radio plays for children; a selection of these was published in the book Prvi poljubac.

Translations

She translated the following Indian novels from English:
Prominent Serbian and Yugoslav critics have written affirmatively about her works in daily papers, periodicals and their collections of essays, starting with Miroslav Egerić in 1957, in the Student periodical, to Jelena Milinković, in the Internet periodical Agon in 2011. Among them are also: Milica Nikolić, Petar Džadžić, Miloš I. Bandić, Predrag Palavestra, Miodrag Protić, Bogdan A. Popović, Božo Vukadinović, Sveta Lukić, Vuk Krnjević, Staniša Tutnjević, Draško Ređep, Srba Ignjatović, Bojana Stojanović Pantović, Jovica Aćin, Vasa Pavković, Saša Radojčić, Stevan Tontić, Vladimir Milarić, Jovan Ljuštanović, Janez Rotar, Franci Zagoričnik, Niko Grafenauer, Vjeran Zuppa, Branko Bošnjak, Enver Kazaz...

Anthologies and panoramas

Poems and stories by Mirjana Stefanović have been included in around eighty anthologies and panoramas in Serbian and in other languages.