Vojislav Besic

Vojislav Besic vojislavbesic@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/vojislav-besic-46a7058 Besic was born in 1960 in Serbia. His multifaced career encompasses writing, music, dentistry, and philanthropic work. He obtained a Doctor of Dentistry degree from the University of Belgrade in 1996. He lived in Prague, Czech Republic from 1992 to 1995. After he got married, he moved to New York in 1996, were he lived and worked until 2017 when he moved back to Belgrade. Vojislav Besic writes short stories, vignettes and novels. Two of his novels were published in Serbia by Kornet Publishing Company, Gringo (2009), Kozinski (2012) and short stories collection Puterica (2014). Five of his short stories were published in Canadian MI Magazine (2004). Several vignettes were printed in Belgrade’s various literary newspapers and underground fanzines throughout the eighties. He is also a musician - guitarist and a songwriter. His New Wave band “Bezobrazno Zeleno” sold 50.000 copies of their albums with Besic’s music. In New York City, his band “L.F.Ant” was active for six years and played almost every rock stage in Manhattan. He wrote music for two long-run documentary movies Vrela Krv (2008) by Marko Mamuzic and NY: Six Hours Earlier (2010.) by Dragana Kanjevac. He wrote and performed music for theatre performance Trojan Women (1997) produced by Classic Stage Company in New York City. After his second divorce in 2005, he left his urban life style in New York and went to Catholic Convent Santa Rosa de Lima in Matamoros, Mexico where he helped open a dental office for the underprivileged and orphans. His voluntary/philanthropic work extended to a D.I.F. Clinique in Matamoros, Mexico, where he wrote his first novel Gringo in 2009.