Blaže Minevski
Blaže Minevski (1961) is a prose writer and playwright. He is the author of ten novels. For the novel „Sight” he received the "Stale Popov" and "Novel of the Year" awards, as well as the award from the City of Skopje - "13th November", and for the novel "Whistles" - the "Prose Masters" award of the Macedonia Present Foundation..
Minevski has also received the "Most Read Author" award, an award given by the National Library "St. Kliment Ohridski" in Skopje.
For the novel "If Some Feelings Are Born", dedicated to the love of Goce Delchev and Janka Kanevche, Minevski received the "Stale Popov" and "Racin's Recognition" awards for the second time.
In addition to the novels published so far, Minevski has also published several books of short stories, including "The Introductory Sermon of the Academician Sisoe", "In the Ox's Horn" and "The Dandelion Season", for which he received the prestigious "Racin's Recognition".
His drama texts were in the repertoires of Macedonian professional theaters for years, but they were also performed as premieres at Ohrid and Skopje Summer Festivals, and for the play "Mute Language" he received the MNT award for best dramatic text in 2001.
The novels "Me, Tito and Mickey Mouse", “Sight” and “Mamli’s Net”have been translated and published in Serbian in Belgrade, and the novels "We Should Have Taken Pictures Before We Started Hating Eachother” and "Memoirs of a Myrtle Spurge" have been translated and published in Bulgarian.
The novel “Sight” has been translated and published in English, Italian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Arabic, Chinese and Polish.
Blaže Minevski is represented in all anthologies of the Macedonian short prose published in the last thirty years in Macedonia and abroad, and for his short stories, translated into more than twenty languages around the world, he is a multiple winner of the "Studentski zbor", "Nova Makedonija", and "Živko Čingo" awards.
A Tail in the Mouth
"Antolog", Skopje, 2025
BOOKSTAR AWARD 2025
“Minevski’s stories, as a kind of distillation of the centuries-old oral Macedonian folk storytelling tradition, pass through a specific humor, but also through the bitterness of life. […] In Minevski’s prose, nothing is like reality, although everything is taken from it.”
Olivera Kjorveziroska
The mark
"Antolog", Skopje, 2025
NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD “UTRINSKI VESNIK”, 2008
НАГРАДА „СТАЛЕ ПОПОВ“, 2008
“13TH NOVEMBER” AWARD, 2009
On both banks of a river, two young snipers – a man and a woman, a Christian and a Muslim, stalk each other, but also fall in love. Their love is both unusual and incredible, because it happens through the optical sights of their weapons and lasts as long as the bullets are fired, from one bank of the river to the other.
A powerful and exciting novel about life and death, about war and peace, about love and hate, about art and the meaning of existence.