Olivera Kjorveziroska
Olivera Kjorveziroska was born in 1965 in Kumanovo. She completed her primary and secondary education in her hometown, and graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, where she lives and works as a literary editor. She is the author of two books of poetry, three books for children, three books of critique and essays, three novels and eight books of short stories for adults.
She is a multiple winner of significant short story awards in Macedonia. For "(S)pleteni raskazi" she received the award for best prose book of the Writers' Association of Macedonia - "Stale Popov" in 2003, and for the novel "Three Marys" - the “Racin’s Recognition” Award for 2025. The novel "The Locked Body of Lou" entered the final for the Novel of the Year in 2005.
Kjorveziroska's short stories have been translated into English, French, Hungarian, Albanian, Czech, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Polish, Russian, German and Greek. Her collection "(S)pleteni raskazi" has been translated into Croatian, and the novels "My Brother from the Thirteenth Floor" and "Ab't" into Albanian and Bulgarian. The novel "The Breadbun Mirna" is listed as optional reading in the curriculum for third graders in elementary schools.
Kjorveziroska is represented in about twenty anthologies published at home, in Macedonian, and abroad - in other languages. She is a member of the Writers' Association of Macedonia and the Macedonian PEN Center.
“Three Marys"
“Ars Lamina”, Skopje, 2025
“RACIN’S RECOGNITION” Award, 2025
The author poetically wants to build on her predecessors, hence the playful variation of the title of Janevski's novel "Two Marys" from 1956, and the naming of one of the male characters only as Slavko, as well as the presence of the novel "Two Marys" on the shelves in the apartment..."
"Three Marys" contains three independent stories about three different women who bear the same name - Marija and who want to leave their current lives because of sinful love. Their own or someone else's. What unites them in a novelistic structure is precisely the apartment that is for rent and that all three want to rent, seeking salvation in it…
“Tail of a thread”
“Begemot”, Skopje, 2025
A thematic, modular selection of Kjorveziroska's stories curated by Vladimir Jankovski, who, by changing the natural environment, the "neighborhood" of the stories, builds an almost new collection of old stories. The sliding through time of individual motifs, characters and situations, as well as the conscious and deliberate grouping and approximation of the stories to each other, reactualizes and recontextualizes the old stories in a new book.