Valentin Neshovski

Valentin Neshovski

Valentin Neshovski is a journalist, editor, and writer. He has worked for Nova Makedonija, Makedonija Denes, Denes, and ZUM-magazin, and as a correspondent for foreign media. In 2000, he received the UNHCR Journalism Award for the best refugee crisis story. His professional residency at the University of Oklahoma resulted in the book Conflict, Peace and Media. He is the author of a sci-fi philosophical trilogy, which consists of the novels One Book (2022, nominated for the Novel of the Year Award, translated into Serbian and Bulgarian), The Last Thought in the Universe (2023, shortlisted for the Novel of the Year Award), and The Café at the End and the Beginning of the Universe. In 2024, together with Xhabir Deralla, he published Man, Robot, and the Digital God. In his work, Neshovski explores futurism, artificial intelligence, and the ethical aspects of the technological era. He also works as an international PR, communications, and media consultant.

 

 

 

The Tavern at the Beginning and the End of the Universe

"Antolog", Skopje, 2025

 

A journey through a universe where the boundaries between reality and simulation melt away in the smoke of a tavern lamp. Don, Rob, Hal, R2, and wondrous entities like Nature, Spektar, and Mono become entangled in conversations that sway between laughter and the apocalypse, between scientific formulas and existential questions.

This book blends the irony of Douglas Adams, the metaphysics of Camus, and the vision of Lem, but sets it all in a universal tavern—an archetypal place where any civilization could begin or end its story.