{"id":4394,"date":"2026-08-18T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/?post_type=dt_team&#038;p=4394"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:57:10","slug":"zharko-kujundhiski-3","status":"publish","type":"dt_team","link":"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/en\/guests\/zharko-kujundhiski-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017darko Kujundjiski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4398 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Zharko_818x818-300x300-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Zharko_818x818-300x300-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Zharko_818x818-300x300-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Zharko_818x818-300x300-4-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u017darko Kujundjiski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u017darko Kujundjiski (Skopje, 1980) is a Macedonian essayist, playwright, short story\nwriter, poet, film and literary critic, translator and publisher. He graduated in 2003,\nand in 2009 he received his master&#039;s degree from the Department of General and\nComparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology &quot;Bla\u017ee Koneski&quot;. He was a\ncolumnist in the daily newspapers &quot;Utrinski Vesnik&quot; and &quot;Dnevnik&quot;, a copywriter in a\nmarketing agency, and a press coordinator at the &quot;Manaki Brothers&quot; Film Festival\nfrom Bitola. He is the founder and initiator, independently or in partnership, of\nseveral relevant projects in the Macedonian cultural environment, such as: the online\nmagazine &quot;Reper&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reper.net.mk\/\">www.reper.net.mk<\/a>the award for best translation &quot;Dragi&quot;, the\ninternational literary festival &quot;BookStar&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/en\/\">www.bookstar.mk<\/a>the fellowship program\n&quot;Publishing Europe&quot;, the mobile bookstore &quot;Zbor\u010de&quot;, as well as the online platform\nfor the promotion of Macedonian literature abroad\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.writers.mk\/\">www.writers.mk<\/a>He is the author\nof 14 books, as well as the guide &quot;Skopje&quot; (2015) as part of the project &quot;Discovering\nEurope anew&quot; by Little Global Cities. He has translated and adapted several works\nfrom English to Macedonian. His works have been translated into English, Serbian,\nCroatian, Slovenian, Polish, German, Turkish, Bulgarian, Italian, Ukrainian, Arabic\nand Albanian. He is represented in a large number of anthologies of Macedonian\nprose and poetry. Among other things, his short story &quot;When the Glasses Are Lost&quot; is\npart of the renowned anthology &quot;The Best European Fiction 2013&quot;. He is the winner\nof the &quot;Stale Popov&quot;, &quot;DeBuren&quot;, &quot;13 November&quot;, &quot;11 March 1943&quot;, &quot;White Dawns&quot;,\n&quot;Studentski Zbor&quot;, &quot;Bla\u017ee Koneski&quot; awards for essay, as well as awards for screenplay\nand acting at the &quot;Faces Without Masks&quot; Festival. He was a Macedonian candidate\nfor the &quot;Balkanika&quot; award 2021. He has been a member of the Writers&#039; Association of\nMacedonia since 2012 and the Macedonian PEN Center since 2013. The novel\n&quot;Spectator&quot; is the first debut novel in contemporary Macedonian literature with eight\neditions and has been translated into Polish and English so far. The novel &quot;America&quot;\n\u200b\u200bhas been translated into Italian, while &quot;Sphinx of Wrath&quot; has been translated\ninto Albanian and Bulgarian. 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