Dragi Mihajlovski short story writer, essayist, scholar, translator. Born on 16 October 1951 in Bitola and passed away in 2022. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. Ph.D. in Philology. He was associate professor at the Faculty of Philology, Department of English Language and Literature and professor of Theory and Practice of Translation.
Works: The Beehive (short stories, 1981), Sole Leather (1990), Uncrucified Gods (essays, 1991), Pole-vault Jump (short stories, 1994), The Tripolska Gate (short stories, 1999), Under Babylon – the Task of the Translator (doctoral thesis, 2000), The Prophet of Discountria (novel, 2001), The Death of the Scrivener (novel, 2002), Stories from the Sixth Floor (short stories, 2003). Translated many foreign authors, among others: Shakespeare (11 of his plays), Milton (Paradise Lost), Shelly, Keats, Byron, Worthsworth, William Blake, John Done, T. S. Eliot; the Nobel winners Kenzaburo Oe, Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott.