Nikola Madjirov led a conversation with him.

Nikola Madjirov led a conversation with him. (1973, Strumica) is a poet, essayist, translator. His poetry has been translated into over forty languages. For the poetry from the book "Relocated Stone" he received the "Hubert Burda" international poetry award, as well as the "Miladinov Brothers" award at the Struga poetry evenings. . Among other awards are "Studentski zbor" for a debut book of Macedonia (1999), the "Aco Karamanov" award (1999), the "Xu Zhimo Silver Leaf" award for European poetry at King's College in Cambridge (2016), the main award of the International poetry festival "Orpheus" in Plovdiv (2019), as well as the Beijing Prize of the Art Independent Network in China for Contemporary Poetry (2021). He is the recipient of several international literary scholarships. Based on Nikola Madjirov's lyrics, music was composed by Bjork and Lou Reed's collaborator, the American jazz composer Oliver Lake, the Italian classical music composer Angelo Inglese, the Macedonian jazz pianist Gordan Spasovski, as well as the leader of the American jazz band Snarky Puppy, Michael League, along with jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist Becca Stevens. Nikola Madjirov is an editor at Stremež and editor of several reviews of Macedonian contemporary poetry published in foreign magazines. He was a member of the jury for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize the largest international prize for a book of poetry published or translated into English, which is awarded in Toronto. He has translated Louise Glück, Yehuda Amichai, Georgi Gospodinov, Slavenka Drakulić, Aleksandar Ristović and other authors. He lives in Strumica.