Vesna Ruzicka

Vesna Ruzicka; Her varied career began in her home town of Sarajevo where she lectured in English language and literature which was followed by many years of active journalism. Coming to London in 1983, she worked as a producer for the BBC World Service and as a foreign correspondent for the Sarajevo Daily ‘Oslobodjenje’, as well as for the news agency SENSE. Theatre was one of her passions and included writing, directing, performing and producing plays for the University of Sarajevo Theatre company, as well as training young actors. She published The Use of Drama Techniques in ELT. She has completed a bilingual collection of poems and is in the process of finishing her first novel in English. She has also written a musical about the life and traditions of an old, now deserted Dalmatian village, which she hopes will be staged in London in the near future.