Mira Adanja-Polak
Born	August 22, 1952 (1952-08-22) (age 57) Budapest, Hungary
Residence	Belgrade, Serbia
Occupation	producer, journalist, presenter, researcher and author
Religious beliefs	Judaism
Website www.adanja-polak.com

Mira Adanja-Polak (Serbian Cyrillic: Мира Адања-Полак) is an internationally recognized freelance producer, journalist and presenter, researcher 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.

Considered by many "the Barbara Walters of Yugoslavia", Mira Adanja-Polak is well known to millions of her countrymen and world-wide. She has interviewed many world celebrities in politics, business and the arts.

Contents 1 Work 1.1 Working Assignments 1.1.1 Documentaries 1.1.2 Interviews 1.2 Publications 2 Publication entries about Mira Adanja-Polak 3 Publications about Mira Adanja-Polak 4 External links

[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 250 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:

Henry Kissinger David Rockefeller Lord Carrington Lord David Owen Robert MacNamara Willy Brandt Armand Hammer Bryan Adams Lawrence Eagleburger Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Graham Green Frederick Forsyth Peter Ustinov Igor Ustinov Art Buchwald

Mstislav Rostropovich Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia Carlo Ponti Sofia Loren Elie Wiesel Oriana Fallaci Indira Gandhi Barbara Walters Dan Rather David Bailey Kirk Douglas Jovanka Broz Erica Jong Princess Leonide Romanoff Prince Michelle Romanoff

[edit] Publications

• “Amerikanci” (“The Americans”) – the result of research into American Society. Published in Yugoslavia in 1982.

[edit] Publication entries about Mira Adanja-Polak

• 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)