CorD Magazine, May 2022, Issue No. 211

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My life Vesna Goldsworthy, author

My Mission Is To Dismantle Prejudices Born in Belgrade as Vesna Bjelogrlić, she was a brilliant student of literature who had only one wish: to be a poet. Love led her to London, where she received her doctorate and got married, and where she today has a career as a distinguished university professor and respected writer and poet. A fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Literature, she is proud of her Serbian identity, just as she was back in the 1990s, when the UK and Serbia were all but at war. The UK feels like her second homeland. Many aren’t that fortunate 54

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