Respected colleagues, dear Ambassador, respected Dean of the Faculty of Philology “Blaže Koneski“ in Skopje. I am very glad to be here today, and it is a great, great honor. As already mentioned, we are at the Faculty of Philology, the place where I receive this award, and that makes me especially pleased. Nineteen years ago...
I thank the committee from the bottom of my heart: Jana [Mihajlovska], Vladimir [Jankovski], Zorica [Nikolovska], thank you very much for the trust you have in my writing, I am touched. Of course, it is not easy to say something very smart now. I want to thank my publishers. I am here for the second time. Last year with "Artkonekt" and this year with "Antolog"...
BookStar is 10 years of struggle. A struggle for freedom. A struggle for the freedom of thought. A struggle to remain oneself. A struggle to belong, but also a struggle to be different. BookStar is 10 years of inspiration. Inspiration for writers, for readers, for the silenced, and inspiration for the forgotten. Who all did BookStar inspire?...
Dear guests, dear readers, dear writers and translators, dear organizers of Bookstar, thank you for bestowing me the honor of opening this festival. I was born in 1981 in Skopje, in what was once Yugoslavia. As one of the smallest countries in the federation, with a language codifed in 1945, I can testify that our generation...
October 4, 2024, Skopje Over the past ten years, "Bookstar" has transformed into a unique literary spectacle that brought full halls and full hearts to the four festival days. This is the main impression of the participants and visitors of the tenth anniversary edition of the Festival of European Literature, which was held from September 30 to October 3 under the motto...
October 3, 2024, Skopje - With the event "The Literary Metaphysics of Alessandro Barrico: The Metamorphosis of the Imagination," which includes an online conversation with the author Alessandro Barrico from Italy, this year's jubilee edition of the festival of European literature "Bukstar". This is also the first of its kind direct contact of the great Italian and world author with his Macedonian audience, after the...
The "Dragi" award for the best literary translation into the Macedonian language went to Anastasija Gjurchinova, for the translation from Italian of the work "The Intimate Life" by the author Niccolò Ammaniti published by "Antolog". The commission for awarding the prize, composed of prof. Dr. Zorica Nikolovska, a representative selected from the Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski" - Skopje, Jana Mihajlovska, a member of the family...
October 2, 2024, Skopje - Today awaits us the most fulfilled day from the program of the annual "BookStar" Festival, including the awarding ceremony of Iceland's Jón Kalman Stefánsson BookStar 2024 and the Čalgija Sound System concert for the occasion of the two anniversaries - 10 years of "Bookstar" and 25 years of "Antolog"! The day will start with "Literary opening
ANNOUNCEMENT PACKED HALL FOR THE OPENING OF THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF "BOOKSTAR"! October 1, 2024, Skopje - "Bookstar" is ten years of inspiration. Inspiration for writers, for readers, for the silenced and inspiration for the forgotten - this was stated by the organizer of the festival and editor-in-chief of "Antolog", Žarko Kujundjiski, at the official opening of the tenth, jubilee edition...
1. What does the initiative for the "Dragi" award represent for you? Last year, when the "Dragi” Award was established, I felt joy and approval. And for two reasons: first, because this award bears the name of my colleague from the Faculty of Philology, Professor Dragi Mihajlovski, who with his translation activity set reference values in the field of translation on Macedonian soil...