Anabela Basalo ( sr-cyr, Анабела Басало) (born 4 September 1972) is a

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writer.

Biography

She graduated from the Third Gymnasium in

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, and began studies of

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, which she never finished. Before she wrote his first book she worked as a seller, waitress, held her own

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, and worked in the

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business. Basalo responded to an ad where the girls were asked to work on phone sex lines – to read erotic stories – reportedly with desire to write them. After seven years writing the story was mature enough for the novel.

Works

Basalo attracted attention with her first novel, ''Žena s greškom'' (Woman with Error). Not long after it she published another novel, ''Peta ljubav'' (Fifth Love). Since then, she published novels ''Erotske price'' (Erotic Stories), ''Tajne ženskih jastuka'' (Secrets of Women Pillows), etc. Her books speak about the world of male domination, the world of money, power and urban

. Although it appears that her novels talk about sex, the story is in fact about the eternal themes: searching for identity, loneliness, environment, what happens when someone decides to be different. She openly and honestly talk about male-female relations. Basalo does so even when writing for women magazines. Critics said of her that she is an "author of a special sensibility, devoted to the personal understanding of the position of women in the world of men."

Trivia

In April 2004, she posed for the Serbian version of ''

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''. In April 2008, she participated in a campaign of gay organization Queeria named "Love on the streets! Hooligans in prisons!"."Ljubav na ulice! Huligane u zatvore!" Zašto ova kampanja?

External links

Interview with Anabela Basalo

About the book "Woman with Error"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Basalo, Anabela 1972 births Living people Writers from Zenica Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian novelists Serbian women short story writers Serbian short story writers Serbian women novelists 20th-century Serbian writers 21st-century Serbian writers 20th-century Serbian women 21st-century Serbian women 20th-century Serbian women writers 21st-century Serbian women writers