Nadja Tesich

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Nadja Tesich


Born
in Užice, Serbia
June 08, 1939

Died
February 20, 2014


Nadja Tesich taught film at Brooklyn College and French literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of the novels Shadow Partisan, Native Land and Far From Vietnam and the literary memoir To Die in Chicago. She is the writer and director of Film for my Son. As an actress she starred in Eric Rohmer’s Nadja à Paris.

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Nadja was a lifelong political activist, she lived her life outspoken and full of righteous rage at the enormous destruction of U.S. wars and the glaring injustice and inequality that surrounded her. She loved Cuba and often said it was the only place she felt she could breathe.

She had fought against U.S. wars in Vietnam, coups in Congo, Chile and Greece; she was active in the mass demonstrations against the Iraq War in 19
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Buntovnica u senci

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To Die in Chicago

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Native Land

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Far From Vietnam

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