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Nadja Tesich

Nadja Tesich was born in Yugoslavia. She taught film at Brooklyn College and French literature at Rutgers University. She is the author of the novels Shadow Partisan, Native Land and Far From Vietnam and the literary memoir To Die in Chicago. She is the writer and director of Film for my Son. As an actress she starred in Eric Rohmer’s Nadja à Paris.

My Life in Paris

When I attempt to describe my years in Paris, no one believes me, I can tell. Here is Nadja coming out of the student restaurant, and who should appear next but Eric Rohmer and within minutes he wants to make a film about her life.

April 29, 2015

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