The Passa Porta house of literature is a member of the international ICORN network, which is committed to providing a haven for persecuted writers for a period of 1 or 2 years. The intention is that this writer is able to take his place in an entirely new political, social and cultural context.
is the first ICORN writer to be our guest in Brussels. He is Serbian and had to leave Belgrade because his own life and that of his wife and child were in serious danger.
Dejan Anastasijevic is an investigative journalist and writer. He started his career as a war reporter in Vukovar (1991) and Bosnia (1992). He writes for the Serbian magazine Vreme, is a freelance correspondent for Time Magazine and writes articles for Slobodna Bosna, The Guardian and other publications.
In 1998, his articles on the violence against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo brought him into discredit with the Milosevic regime. In April 1999, during the NATO bombardments and the subsequent suppression of the free press, he fled to Vienna. There, he worked for Time until 2002. He returned to Belgrade to witness the downfall of Milosevic. He was the first Serbian journalist to testify against Milosevic at the Tribunal in The Hague. His present journalism is mainly about organised crime and insecurity in Serbia.
Dejan Anastasijevic has also written Out of War (London, 2000), a highly-praised book on the Serbian opposition. He is currently working on two new publications.
