Mira Adanja-Polak
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| Mira Adanja-Polak | |
| Born | August 22, 1952 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Residence | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Occupation | journalist, presenter, researcher, activist and author |
| Religious beliefs | Judaism |
| Website www.adanja-polak.com |
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Mira Adanja-Polak (Serbian Cyrillic: Мира Адања-Полак) is an internationally recognized journalist and presenter, researcher, activist and author from Serbia. She hosts the talk show on RTS called Mira Adanja-Polak and You (Mira Adanja-Polak i Vi).
She is a journalist with large number of exclusive interviews with famous artists, politicians, businessmen, celebrities and royal family members.
At the annual meeting of Y-peer (Youth Peer Education Network) of the United Nations in Cairo, Mira Adanja-Polak was granted the title of ambassador of UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) for year 2009, for continued struggle against AIDS and spreading knowledge about this disease.
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[edit] Work
[edit] Working Assignments
Foreign desk consultant for ITN in London – working on the Channel Four News programme. During the Bosnian Conflict she secured exclusive interviews for the programme with the Serbian President, Slobodan Milošević, and the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs – Radovan Karadžić and General Ratko Mladić. these interviews were included in special reports on the crisis in Srebrenica. They achieved world recognition and earned a number of prestigious International Broadcasting awards for Channel Four News – ITN.
Field Producer for People Magazine (New York) on the first visit of Royal family to Belgrade after 6o years of exile presenting the new elected President Vojislav Koštunica to Western world in special profile, NBC TV’s Nightline programme – covering the visit of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia to her native country.
Contributor for The Dictionary of Art (London) – supplying various articles and photographs on Eastern European Art.
Exclusive Reports for ROYALTY Magazine (London).
Consultant to ABC Television – Pierre Salinger’s Broadcasts – during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
[edit] Documentaries
Mira Adanja-Polak is the author of over sixty investigative documentaries:
- Risk of Love (New York) – introducing the problem of AIDS in Eastern Europe;
- Hospis – the art of dying
- File on Russian Tsar
- Russian Cemetery in the West (Paris)
- Meeting the Son of Hitler’s Assassin (Graf von Staufenberg) (Munich)
- Life of Aircraft Carrier Nimitz
- Royal Divorce (London)
- Christie's – New York
- Visit to a Women’s Jail – Killing the Husband (Belgrade)
- Road of a Drug (Amsterdam)
- Widow of Communism (Tito’s Wife after 16 years of silence) (Belgrade)
- Hand of St. John the Baptist (Montenegro)
- Woman Without Breasts (Belgrade)
- Adopting a Handicapped Child
- Berlin Wall (Before and After)
- Behind Closed Doors (West on Balkans)
- Love Letters From Mileva to Albert Einstein
- The Balkans and Yugoslavia 1941-45
- Television series on AIDS
[edit] Interviews
Interviews by Mira Adanja-Polak include:
[edit] Publications
- “Amerikanci” (“The Americans”) – the result of research into American Society. Published in Yugoslavia in 1982.
[edit] Publication Entries
- International Biographical Centre, Cambridge
- International Headers in Achievement 1991
- International Who’s Who of Intellectuals 1992
- British National Union of Journalist Freelance Directory
- Who’s Who (Yugoslavia)
[edit] Publications about Mira Adanja-Polak
- Dušan Slavković: Biti novinar, Belgrade, 1998.
- Branislav Kovač: 33 X kako postati novinar, Belgrade, 1988.
- Srpska porodična enciklopedija (A-AR), 2006.
- Povjesnica Milića od Mačve, 1987.
- Monografija Slobodana Sotirova Prijatelji i modeli 1946-2007
[edit] External links
- Official Web Site
- Interview with Mira Adanja-Polak in Dnevnik, 30. December 2008 (Serbian)
