{"id":4482,"date":"2026-09-03T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/?post_type=dt_team&#038;p=4482"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:38:55","slug":"aleksandar-rusjakov-2","status":"publish","type":"dt_team","link":"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/en\/guests\/aleksandar-rusjakov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandar Rusjakov"},"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: left;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4529 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7.Aleksandar-Rusjakov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7.Aleksandar-Rusjakov.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7.Aleksandar-Rusjakov-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7.Aleksandar-Rusjakov-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/strong><strong>Aleksandar Rusjakov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aleksandar Rusjakov is a poet, writer, screenwriter, and columnist. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Department of Film and TV Directing. He is the author of the books: Do You Love Me in the Rain? (short stories, 2010), The Thirteenth Month (novel, 2012), Athena with a Penis (novel, 2014), A Sip of Admiration from the Tears of Eternity (poetry, 2016), Whore Chronicles (novel, 2020), Albino Trip (novel, 2021), Hotel Between Two Wars (novel, 2022), 50 Songs of Stories (poetry, 2023), The Girl and the Travelling Doll (picture book, 2024), and Egosurfer (short stories, 2025). For Hotel Between Two Wars, he received the Pegasus Award for Best Unpublished Novel in 2022 and the Racin Award, and for 50 Songs of Stories, he won the Antevo Pero Award. Since 2009, he has been a regular columnist for the Nova Makedonija newspaper. Together with Boris Damovski, he is the co-author of 13 seasons of the animated political satire Ednooki. He is credited as a screenwriter and co-screenwriter for several short and feature film screenplays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4577 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1773737521egosurfer-1-730x1000-1-219x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1773737521egosurfer-1-730x1000-1-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1773737521egosurfer-1-730x1000-1-9x12.png 9w, https:\/\/bookstar.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1773737521egosurfer-1-730x1000-1.png 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0415gosurfer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cArs Libris\u201d, Skopje: 2025<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\"This short story collection is titled Egosurfer, matching the title of its opening story. However, the ego as a disparaging state of mind\u2014and the struggle against this darkest dungeon of the being\u2014is linked to the fallacy of the individual, and by extension, of society. It alludes to the insignificance of humanity in the face of the presence and decisions of higher entities\u2014which, in Aleksandar Rusjakov's stories, represents the divine. Almost all of his heroes are placed before their own identity abyss, and their wise and just moves determine their own future, which inherently implies the future of society itself.\"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Marijana Kotevska-Georgieva<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0430\u0440 \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0458\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0430\u0440 \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0458\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0435\u0442, \u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b, \u0441\u0446\u0435\u043d\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442 \u0438 \u043a\u043e\u043b\u0443\u043c\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442. \u0414\u0438\u043f\u043b\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0430 \u0424\u0430\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0442\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0442 \u0437\u0430 \u0434\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u0443\u043c\u0435\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438, \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u0437\u0430 \u0444\u0438\u043b\u043c\u0441\u043a\u0430 \u0438 \u0422\u0412-\u0440\u0435\u0436\u0438\u0458\u0430. \u0410\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440 \u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u043d\u0438\u0433\u0438\u0442\u0435: \u201e\u041c\u0435 \u0441\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0448 \u043b\u0438 \u043f\u043e\u0434 \u0434\u043e\u0436\u0434\u043e\u0442?\u201c (\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0438, 2010), \u201e\u0422\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0430\u0435\u0441\u0435\u0442\u0442\u0438\u043e\u0442 \u043c\u0435\u0441\u0435\u0446\u201c (\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d, 2012), \u201e\u0410\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u0441\u043e \u043f\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0441\u201c (\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d, 2014), \u201e\u0413\u043e\u043b\u0442\u043a\u0430 \u0432\u043e\u0441\u0445\u0438\u0442 \u043e\u0434 \u0441\u043e\u043b\u0437\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u0432\u0435\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u201c (\u043f\u043e\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0458\u0430, 2016), \u201e\u041a\u0443\u0440\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u0445\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0438\u201c (\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d, 2020), \u201e\u0410\u043b\u0431\u0438\u043d\u043e&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","dt_team_category":[45,14],"class_list":["post-4482","dt_team","type-dt_team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dt_team_category-bookstar-2026","dt_team_category-gosti","dt_team_category-45","dt_team_category-14","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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