Macedonia
Vladimir Jankovski (1977) is a writer and a translator. He is a graduate on the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology “Blaže Koneski in Skopje. He worked as an editor in several publishing houses. For the novel “Hidden Desires, Restless Journeys” he won the “Novel of the Year” Award and was the Macedonian candidate for the European Prize for Literature, and for “Invisible Loves” he won the “Racinovo Priznanie” Award. He actively works on literary translations. In Macedonian he translated books from Dubravka Ugrešić, Miljenko Jergović, Margaret Atwood, Philip K. Dick, Miloš Crnjanski, Yanis Yonevs, Slobodan Šnajder, Damir Karakaš, Muharem Bazdulj, Goran Tribuson, Robert Perišić, Svetlana Slapšak, Charles Bukowski and others.
HIDDEN DESIRES, RESTLESS TRAVELS
“Hidden Desires, Restless Travels” is a mosaic novel in which the stories of fifty people from different geographical meridians intersect with the stories of the four characters based in Skopje. The book is a mix of stories, intertwined among themselves, pictured in details, with specific atmosphere. This is a novel about the interaction between the personal and the external, about the way the atmosphere and situations shape our inner landscapes, about the need to tell stories and find the glow and the lie in them. The combination of an unbiassed camera view and personally colored storytelling creates an unusual tone, which causes the reader to be left in front of the open door of interpretation.
Thematically, the book deals with some of the dominant themes in modern society: the relationship between the real and the virtual, the question of professional success and success in the art world, the relationship between external success and the search for oneself that has one form on the outside and another on the inside.
- Award "Novel of the Year" of the "Slavko Janevski" Foundation for 2020
- Macedonian candidate for the "Balkanika" award for 2020
- Macedonian candidate for the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) for 2022
- Recognition Author of the Year of the Macedonian Association of Publishers for 2022