Jasmina Mihajlovic was born in Nis (Serbia). She is a writer, literary and hyperfiction critic. She is managing “The Milorad Pavic Bequest” (SER -11000 Belgrade, Brace Baruh 2). J.Mihajlovic M. Pavic’s biographer and bibliographer, and editor of his collected works. See her book: “A Tale of the Soul and the Body. Layers and Meanings in the Prose of Milorad Pavic” (Belgrade 1992). (Sf.: Gorup, Radmila. Jasmina Mihajlovic. Prica o dusi i telu. Slojevi i znacenja u prozi Milorada Pavica, Belgrade, Prosveta, 1992. - World Literature Today, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Summer 1993, Vol. 67, N. 3; pp. 636-637.)

Jasmina Mihajlović graduated in 1987 from the Faculty of Philology at the Belgrade University — Department of Yugoslav and foreign literature. She taught literature in Belgrade secondary schools since 1987; Between 1989-1991 she cooperated with the Institute of Literature and Art in Belgrade on the project „Serbian Literary Criticism“, and from 1991 to August of 1999 she was Director of the Council for promoting Serbian culture abroad, with the World Serbian Community seated in Geneva.

Since 1999 she has had the status of freelance artist. She is member of the Serbia Literary Society, columnist of the “Lisa”, magazine belonging to the “Burda” corporation, “Grad”, “Jasmin”, and the author of eight books:

• Tale of the Body and Soul. Layers and Meanings in the Prose of Milorad Pavić - Belgrade, Prosveta, 1992.
• Two Tales from Kotor (with M. Pavić) - Belgrade, Dereta, 1998, 2005.
• Private Collection - Belgrade, Dereta, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005.
• Travel Album - Belgrade, Dereta, 2004, 2005, 2006. / Travel Album received the award “Dereta’s Book of the Year” for 2004.
• Love Story in Two Tales (with M. Pavić) - Belgrade, Čigoja, 2004. (Translated into Slovenian by Nives Vidić, Nova Gorica, “Ma-no”, 2006.)
• Love without Secrets - Belgrade, Dereta, 2005.
• Love with Dictionary of the Unknown - Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2006, 2007(2).
• The Paris Kiss. A Novel - Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2007(2).
• Парижский поцелуй - Санкт Петерсбург, Азбука,  2007

Her fiction has been translated into the English, Russian, Greek, Ukrainian and Slovenian languages.

Jasmina Mihajlović, as a literary author, nurtures an eclectic genre of travel and epistolary prose with traces of the anthropological essay and private narrative, which is read with the tenseness of a thriller, horror and great love story.

Books by Jasmina Mihajlovic

The Paris Kiss

New book by Jasmina Mihajlovic

The Paris Kiss, A novel - Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2007, 225 p.

The Paris Kiss is a specific adventure-travelogue novel. It takes place during four days in Paris. It the same time it’s an amusing metaphysical-philosophical-esoteric novel that can be read as a survival guide for the newest era that we’ve stepped into. It’s a book on how to overcome stress, how to buy a pair of boots in Paris, what the future will be like, what will happen to Christianity and other religions, which cafes in Paris are good, how Belgrade is seen from Paris and how Paris from Belgrade.

Beside the fact that the events take place within a four day span, the Paris Kiss tells of the moment all of us, all of mankind, are in. The junction of the new era and the newest era. Or the crossroads where the analogue era turns into the digital. That’s why it also tells a tale of love, solitude, fear, global climatic changes, nature as the greatest luxury, Paris as a city concealing the entrance to the netherworld, male-female relations and the new era of the female divine. The Paris Kiss seeks and finds the new Messiah the third millennium is longing for.

This detective-alchemist novel with elements of science fiction and the deciphering of urban city codes attempts, through the past, to perceive the future. Among other things, it tells of Mona Lisa’s code, mega-stores, large fashion brands, immortality, and whether speed hastens life or cancels it out. In any case, this is a triple-layer novel of significant volume that much has fit into, including the excitement of the readers to see the end of the initiation search disguised as the purchase of three pairs of boots.

The Paris Kiss is and ultra-light novel with bulky subjects.

The translation of this novel came out of print in Russia in time for the Moscow Book Fair, at the end of November 2007, and in Georgia it will be published in 2008.

The unconventional appearance of the book is the work of Novi Sad designer Jovan Trkulja, whose work has in America been pronounced “The Best Design from Europe”.

Love with a Dictionary of the Unknown - Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2006, 154 p.

“Love with a Dictionary of the Unknown” by Jasmina Mihajlović is not just a book of essays on love.
It’s also a collection of recipes for a higher quality, more fulfilled and happier love life, a manual on the right to emotions; a step-by-step guide to overcoming fear of love; a glossary of terms forming the foundation of love; a do-it-yourself for losing guilt trips; an encyclopedia of various kinds of love…
In short, “Love with a Dictionary of the Unknown” is a small female bible of new sensitivity.
In it Jasmina Mihajlović speaks – openly, from the female point of view – of things usually not spoken of in public, let alone written about. She has found the right words to tell what is usually most gladly kept silent.”

Prof. Dr Neda Todorović

Prilog za bibliografiju Milorada Pavica / Contribution to a Bibliography of Milorad Pavic, Beograd, Prosveta, 1991, pp. 231-305. Separately and as part of the book “An Anchoret in New York” in Collected Works, Beograd, Prosveta, 1990. (Contents: List of all books by M. Pavic fiction, translations of fiction, scholarly and theoretical works; chronological bibliography of works of fiction published in papers, magazines - 1964 -1990; chronologically classified literature on M. Pavic - 1952 -1990).

Prica o dusi i telu. Slojevi i znacenja u prozi Milorada Pavica / A Tale of the Soul and the Body. Layers and Meanings in the Prose of Milorad Pavic - Belgrade, Prosveta, 1992, 191 p.

Bio-bibliografija Milorada Pavica / Milorad Pavic’s Biography and Bibliography, Separately and as part of the book “An Anchoret in New York” in Collected Works, Beograd, Draganic, 1996, pp. 165-418. (Contents: Milorad Pavic’s biography; list of all books by M. Pavic; Milorad Pavic’s bibliography: original versions in Serbian; translations; chronologically classified literature on M. Pavic - 1952 -1995).

Two tales from Kotor (with M. Pavic), Belgrade, Dereta, 1998, 52 + 71 p.

Private Collection (short stories), Belgrade, Dereta, 2000, 257 p.

Jasmina Mihajlovic’s book Private Collection (Dereta, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005), contains her “Autobiography in Scents” and six stories: “The Unholy Place”, “Three Tables”, “Breakfast at Cituras”, “Paris is Deodorant for the Soul”, “Russia in Winword”, “Summer in France”. This is a series of exciting travel tales that, apart from unusually experienced places and regions in Serbia, Montenegro, Russia, Greece and France, depict the author’s life with her husband, author Milorad Pavic.

Her stories, along with a detective twist, elements of horror and fantasy, abound in lucid, modern, urban female observations on various phenomena of the final decade of the 20^th century. In the Private Collection the reader will find a diary-style, epistolary, autobiographical and travel prose. This book by J. Mihajlovic does in fact contain the author’s private collection: of unusual places in time and space, strange events, furniture, families, houses…

Love Story in Two Tales
(with Milorad Pavić), Belgrade, Čigoja, 2004, 2005; 63 p.

Read this exciting literary game! How a wife, an author, ordered from her husband, an author, a tale in which she is to be the heroine.

Travel Album, Belgrade, Dereta, 2004, 2005, 2006; 162 p.

Travel Album received the award “Dereta’s Book of the Year” for 2004. The NIN magazine included it among the ten best books of prose in the same year. It has for nine continuous months been among the top ten on the bestseller list of Dereta’s bookstore.

Travel Album (Dereta, 2004, 2005, 2006) is both a book of stories and a novel in tales, as well as an anthropological essay, a private narrative and a travelogue… It is read as an exciting thriller. It has drama, tenseness, disturbing disclosures, an intimate yet not trivial unveiling of a marriage of two authors, Milorad Pavic and Jasmina Mihajlovic. Travel Album is somewhat like a love travelogue with many layers that can be drunk as a glass of spring water, but also a glass of expensive champagne.

Travel Album belongs to an eclectic genre for the new age in which female aestheticism, sensibility, honesty and moral righteousness have the main say.

Love without Secrets , Belgrade, Dereta, 2005, 140 p.

A refreshing, sobering and positive view upon the world.

In the book Love without Secrets (Dereta, 2005) you will find public, private and secret truths on the densest of human emotions - love. These guru essays will leave nobody indifferent. They are an uncompromising view on the past, the present and the future of all kinds of love in a person’s life. The observations of Jasmina Mihajlović must be trusted for they are no cheap, fast food spilling of reheated general wisdoms but rather material on the amorous reality and tomorrow of us and the world.

The condensed ease of depth in these texts inspires us to love, first and foremost, ourselves!

The book “Love without Secrets”, according to the reports of the specialized magizine “Bestseller”, was on the 9th place of the annual non-fiction best seller list for the year 2006 after 14 weeks on the list of most read books.

Jasmina Mihajlović Photos

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Photo: Marija Ćalić Copyright by „Gloria“

Photo: Marija Ćalić Copyright by „Gloria“

Photo: Vladimir Tatarević

Photo: Vladimir Tatarević

Photo: Dragan Tanasijević	Photo: Vladimir Tatarević
Photo: Milorad Pavić	Photo: Vladimir Tatarević
Photo: Milorad Pavić	Photo: Marija Ćalić
Photo: Marija Ćalić Copyright by „Gloria“	Photo: Vladimir Tatarević
Photo: Vladimir Tatarević