Nina Bunjevac

Nina Bunjevac (born 1973 in Welland , Ontario ) is a Canadian-Yugoslav comic artist .

Life

Nina Bunjevac's parents had emigrated to Canada from communist Yugoslavia . In 1975 the parents separated and her mother returned to Belgrade with Nina and her sister, but without the brother , where Nina grew up in Zemun . Her father Peter Bunjevac, who was a member of the terrorist organization “Freedom for the Serbian Fatherland” ( Chetnik ), died in Canada in August 1977 together with two other Serbian nationalists in an accident with a self-made bomb.

Bunjevac attended the Osnovna škola “Đorđe Krstić” School of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She visited her brother in Canada in late 1990 and stayed there because of the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia . She graduated from the Central Technical School in Toronto and then studied art at the Ontario College of Art & Design and has since worked as an art teacher and freelance writer.

In her graphic novel Bezimena , published in 2020 by Berlin-based Avant Verlag , the illustrator gives birth to an "uncomfortable, dark fairy tale" about sexual violence and plays with the myth of Artemis .

Works (selection)

Vladimir Azarov: Of architecture: the territories of a mind . Illustr. Nina Bunjevac. Holstein, Exile Editions, Ontario 2015
Fatherland . Jonathan Cape, London 2014
- Fatherland. A family story between Yugoslavia and Canada . Translated from Axel Halling. Avant, Berlin 2015
  - Excerpt from: Jungle. Supplement to jungle World , 37, 2017, pp. 1–24
  - Sven Jachmann: Trauma Interpretation. About Nina Bunjevac's graphic novel "Vaterland". concrete , 5, May 2015, p. 54
Heartless . Conundrum Pr., Greenwich ( Nova Scotia ), 2012
with Irena Jukic Pranjic: Balkan Comics. Women on the Fringe . Mark Batty Pub, 2012
with Miodrag Đorić: Nagib: zapisi o prepoznavanju . Nezavisna izdanja Slobodan Mašić, Belgrade 2009
Hladna kao led . Omnibus, Belgrade 2011.
Bezimena , graphic novel, from Canadian English by Benjamin Mildner, avant-verlag. Berlin 2020.

Web links

Literature by and about Nina Bunjevac in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Nina Bunjevac in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Nina Bunjevac , website
Martin Reiterer: Comic "Vaterland". Breath that was held too long ( memento of March 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Review. In: Wiener Zeitung , March 12, 2015
Krsto Lazarevic: No books for home. The graphic novels by Nina Bunjevac. jungle World, 15, 2015, p. 12f.
Fatherland , publisher's advertisement, Avant-Verlag

Individual evidence

↑ Elise Graton: I flirted with nationalism . Interview, in: taz , May 2, 2015, p. 12
↑ August 1977 , episode in: Heartless
↑ Alice Galizia: Graphic Novel: "Naked Girls with Owl Faces " , review on woz.ch from June 25, 2020, accessed August 11, 2020

personal data
SURNAME	Bunjevac, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian-Yugoslav comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Welland (Ontario)

[TAZ2015-1] Elise Graton: I flirted with nationalism . Interview, in: taz , May 2, 2015, p. 12

[2] August 1977 , episode in: Heartless

[3] Alice Galizia: Graphic Novel: "Naked Girls with Owl Faces " , review on woz.ch from June 25, 2020, accessed August 11, 2020