Member Since: March 28, 2011

Snjezana Marinkovic


Biography

For sixteen years of my life Yugoslavia was my country, Serbo-Croatian was my language, and my name Snjezana, meaning Snow-White, was commonly Yugoslavian. Then everything changed. Territory was divided, cities were renamed, people ethnically labeled, and many of “Snow-White’s dwarfs” took guns and became soldiers. Conflicts and violence spread as deadly disease and Yugoslavia became a war-devastated country. But, I was among people who got the opportunity to survive, to find their refuge, and to tell their stories.

My writing was published in numerous European publications including magazines San, Ty& Ja, Pribechy Lasky, Lasky Do Kabelky, and Divka. In 1996, I received Frintiskove Lazne Prize for Literature. My stories and poems were read on Radio Sarajevo in Yugoslavia, Radio Brno, Radio Plzen, and RCT 1 television program in the Czech Republic, and Literary Event of Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas.

Currently, I focus on conveying message of peace, I write, and I enjoy my life, without the dwarfs and without a fairy tale.

Where to find Snjezana Marinkovic online

Twitter: pjesnik
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/556774113
Blog: http://Snjezana.tumblr.com

Books

Born in Sarajevo    by Snjezana Marinkovic
Price: $4.99 USD. 56990 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on March 28, 2011. Nonfiction.
In 1991, Slavs would become traitors to their homeland and to each other. They began to rage simultaneously, conquer systematically and clean their country ethnically.

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balkan    bosnia    gypsy shadow    memoir    sarajevo    snjevana marinkovic    terror    war    yugoslavia