Serbia

Zdenka Acin
Zdenka Acin (born in 1951 in Montnegro) is a writer, translator, actress, journalist, TV writer, and host from the former Yugoslavia. She has a PhB in Philosophy (University of Belgrade), has been accepted for a Masters Degree and PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and has studied at the Toronto Film School.

Zdenka's articles, as well as radio and TV programs encompassed a diverse range of subjects including film, theatre, music, culture, philosophy, literature, politics, art, environment, and religion. She has interviewed prominent national and international figures, including three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her interviews brought out crucial issues of our times such as freedom, censorship, human rights, democracy, liberty, non-violence, and criticism of totalitarian regimes.

As an outspoken independent intellectual, Zdenka has been blacklisted in both the former Yugoslavia as well as Milosevic's Yugoslavia. Zdenka's television talk show Press Club - one of the most popular TV programs in Yugoslavia - was removed from the air three times in 1995, 1996 and 1997 because of political reasons and censorship. She was also removed as cultural editor of the political and cultural magazine Duga (Rainbow), as editor-in-chief of the political magazine Interview which was shut down in 1997, and she lost her job at Portal magazine.

Zdenka's published works include "Neither Voice of God nor Voice of State" and "I Renounce Revenge." She currently lives in Canada with her son, Stefan.