Alexander and Death
The novel Alexander and Death takes the highest place in Macedonian contemporary fiction. It is a great work of art with high aspirations and with an ambitious, major theme. It is a novel about the drama and the tragedy of a genius, who imprints this drama, this genius and tragedy irrevocably onto the life and the […]
Excercises for Ibn Pajko
In the last ten years, Olivera Nikolova created several notable accomplishments in fiction, among which Excercises for Ibn Pajko takes a special place. This is a book which ensures that man is a mystical, secretive and exciting creature that hides desires, joys and sadness deeply inside, and these are all an absolute constant regardless of exterior circumstances […]
The Last Villagers
Andreevski’s novel The Last Villagers is one of the most read books of contemporary Macedonian literature. It is a chronicle of the disintegration of the Macedonian village in the technological era – the village is dehumanized, emptied from its warmth, its life and its meaning, it is left behind at the mercy of the barren […]
Alphabet of the Insubordinate
The novel Alphabet of the Insubordinate is characterised by an unusual organization and structure: the action takes place in an alphabetical order and following the deeper layers of the transformation of letters, starting from their source in the similarity between the object and the notion to which they refer and leading to their ultimate simplification […]
Wild League
Wild League, the novel of the prominent Macedonian writer Vlada Urošević deals with a current and an intriguing theme – theft of an archeological cultural treasure. The conveying of a subject like these upon the Macedonian ambient is completely justified due to its constant presence in the media in the last decade. Uroshevic confidently leads […]
Conversation with Spinoza
Goce Smilevski is a young author, born in 1975, a representative of the youngest generation of Macedonian novelists. His novel Conversation with Spinoza belongs to the current in the Macedonian and world novel which finds its motivation in the sphere of ideas. The circular path, which the author then follows, leads to life itself, which is […]
The Peeper
For the The Peeper of Prokopiev, nostalgia is inseparable from the erotic. Even as a schoolboy, joining in singing the National Anthem for Tito, the protagonist is more deeply affected by personal experience than public history. The middle-aged protagonist who longs for Jana had already longed for and lost his mother Maria decades earlier. And […]
The Death of the Scrivener
Dragi Mihajlovski was noticed first of all by his books of short stories and he managed to become one of the most published Macedonian writers of the middle generation. His novel The Death Of The Scrivener is situated in the 14th century, under the stone walls of the town Bitola which at the moment is […]
Sunday
The novel Sunday Ermis Lafazanovski is a popular and widely read book. With its subtle and cultured recognizable parody, allusion, and above all, with often witty narration with wonderful so called “oral essays” and perfect simplicity, with skillfully caught anxiety of the contemporary life, Sunday is a novel for the forthcoming readers.
Roulette of Seven Numbers
Slavko Janevski is a writer belonging the very top of Macedonian contemporary literature. He is the author of poetry books, travelogues, children’s literature, movie scripts, but most of all Janevski is a unique figure due to his novels, especially from the Kukulino cycle. Kukulino is a mythical and a secret place, it is a multiple […]