Biljana Stojanovska (1984) graduated from the Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski" in Skopje, at the department of Macedonian literature and South Slavic literature.
In 2015, she published her first collection of poetry "Words have no meaning" published by Antolog. She is the winner of the 2017 "Todor Chalovski" literary award for the book "A flat that is falling apart" (2018, Gallikul).
Her third book, “While You Sleep”, was published in 2024 by “Čudna šuma”.
Her poetry has been translated into English, German, Chinese, Serbian, Polish, Slovenian, and has been featured in several Macedonian literature magazines and anthologies.
Words have no meaning
"One should have the lucidity to contemplate everyday life, which is by its nature banal, and to create wisdom from it. If I were asked to describe the book "Words have no meaning" by Biljana Stojanovska in one sentence, that would be my sentence. You have before you a serious book by a young author that shows a lot of promise. Such books are a real rarity in Macedonian literary production."
Gjoko Zdraveski
"Biljana Stojanovska's poetry is a deep touch with the ritual of the day. The ordinariness of the objects and their concrete and verbal connection with the moment and with the body of the one who writes draw the warm ambience of the presence of a wide love – a love that lives in the division before it becomes separation and in the recall before it becomes memory.