FESTIVAL GUEST Vesna Pesic and publishing house PESIC AND SONS


VESNA PEŠIĆ BIOGRAPHY

Vesna Pešić, linguist, publicist, owner of the publishing house “Pesić I sinovi” and a global promoter of Serbian culture and heritage.

She graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Department of Italian and

French Language and Literature.

She is the author of the books: “Vinča – the Cradle of the First Europe”; “The Heritage of the First Europe”; “Etruscans”; “New Serbia – Old Europe (with Robert Liris); “The Alphabet of Lepenski Vir” (with Madeleine Sabet); “Ithaca” (with Irina Deretić); “The Silent History – a Feast of Infowarriors”, “Call Me Garun, a Novel about Yemen and Armenians”.

She is also the author of: The documentary film “The Vinča Letter”; the TV series “The Silent History” (11 episodes); TV interview series “Liberation of History” (26 episodes); Documentary travelogue “Geography of the Soul” (with Jelena Milo).

Vesna Pešić is the founder of the publishing house “Pesićand Sons” from Belgrade, (the only publisher of the silenced history from the former Yugoslavia), in which, within the framework of her project “In the Mission of Self-Awareness, Not Self-Love”, she has prepared and published over 530 books of national importance for Serbian culture. She has brought some of today’s greatest scientists, researchers and writers to Serbia.

Traveling across all continents, Vesna Pešić has organized hundreds of forums and promotions dedicated to little-known, silenced or marginalized data from the historiography, linguistics and cultural traditions of the Serbian people. Her books have been translated and published abroad in English, French, Italian, Russian, Armenian… She has participated in numerous domestic and international congresses dedicated to the research of the ancient past of civilizations. Vesna Pešić is an honorary member by invitation of the Serbian Writers’ Association, with which she has been publishing the “Serbian

Literary Magazine” for 8 years. She is also a member of the World Minds organization, headquartered in Geneva, the Institute for Homeric Studies from Mexico, the Serbian Development Academy from Belgrade…

She has received numerous domestic and international awards for her work.