Mima Simić

Mima Simic (born Ana Marija in 1976, Croatia) is a Croatian writer, an awarded film critic, translator and an LGBT media activist. She holds degrees in Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and Gender Studies from the Central European University.
Simic wrote for the Feral Tribune in the 2000s.
She is the author of a short story collection Pustolovine Glorije Scott (The Adventures of Gloria Scott, AGM, 2005), which is currently being made into an animated series and a collection of film essays Otporna na Hollywood (HFS, 2009). Her short stories and various other texts have been published in numerous Croatian and international magazines, journals and anthologies.
Simic is particularly interested in activist interventions in the media. In 2007 Simic went on the Croatian version of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire and outed herself as a lesbian. For her activist engagement in 2011 she was named the Croatian LGBT person of the decade by the Zagreb Pride Committee. During the debate on Croatian constitutional referendum, 2013 Simic was the guest on Nedjeljom u dva, becoming the first outed lesbian to appear in the long history of this most popular Croatian political TV show.
Simic received a literary grant from the Croatian Ministry of Culture in 2012. Under the Milanović government, Simić was named to the Croatian Ministry of Culture's committee for non-profit media in 2013, 2014, and 2015. The committee was relieved by the new Orešković government in 2016. With her band Drvena Marija Simić took part in protests calling for the government's resignation organized by the far-left Workers' Front on 1 February 2016.
From 2013 to 2015 Simic hosted the weekly TV show Peti dan (Fifth Day)
Simic is vegan.