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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.
Ermis Lafazanovski (1961) is a Macedonian writer and translator. Writes novels, short stories, literary essays and essays on cultural anthropology.
Published novels: Nobleman (1997), Descirber (2000) – (Macedonian Writers Association Award), Novel About the Arms (2003 – Fiction Masters Award), Hrapeshko (2006, Macedonian nomination for the prestigious Balkanika Prize), Sunday (2009) and The History of the People who is Dying of Fear (2012).
Major collections of short stories: Half of the Rainbow (1992), When Umbrellas were Invented in Skopje (1999), Exotic cantata (2012).
Major works of criticism: Tradition, Narration and Literature (1996), Text and Mentality (2000), Macedonain Cosmogony Legends (2001), Anthropological Dialogues (2002).
The novel Hrapesko has been translated and published into Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Polish and Bulgarian.