Photo: Kire Galevski
Crvenkovska experiments with genres, building intricate narrative structures and layers. In her novels, as well as in her children’s and YA fiction, she deals with themes like human impact on nature, violence, freedom, loss, migration, sexuality, gender and human existence in general.
Biography
Biljana Crvenkovska is an award-winning author and scriptwriter, editor and translator. She writes for children, youth and adults: novels, short stories, picture books, middle grade fiction, poetry, plays and essays. As scriptwriter, she has written many screenplays for TV series for all ages, including the popular Macedonian animated series “Bibi’s World”.
For her books for children and adults she won or was shortlisted for numerous awards. Both her novels for adults “Nine Stories about Miss Sith” and “House above the Waves” were finalists for the most prestigious Macedonian literary prize “Novel of the year”. Her collection of “Fairytales from Macedonia for the entire year” and the picture book “Tiger on the Street” (both done together with the illustrator Katerina Nikolovska) were included into the White Ravens catalogue (2020, 2023), and her collection of stories for children “Mama Ana’s Goodnight Stories” won the most prestigious prize for children’s literature in Macedonia – “Vančo Nikoleski” in 2020. In 2025 she was named Author of the Year by the Association of Macedonian Publishers.
Her books are translated in Serbian, Croatian, English, French, Albanian, German, Turkish, Slovenian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian…
Crvenkovska is a member of The Association of Macedonian Writers and of the Association of Macedonian Film Workers.
In 2025 she has won The regional feminist and queer literature award “Štefica Cvek” for her latest children novel Tales from the Tinkling Sea.
Outstanding title for adults:
NINE STORIES ABOUT MISS SITH (2019)
“Nine stories about Miss Sith“ by Biljana S. Crvenkovska is well thought-of and carefully structured novel. It functions as a collection of stories as well as a novel made of one frame-story, that contains another nine stories, through which several joint light motives prevail. The quiet steps of the cat – the real one, the imagined one, the symbolic one – but also her unexpected appearances are putting together in a tight composition the strings from the narrative moon phases and fugas. In the stories there are situations in which all female protagonists find themselves at crossroads, situations in which they need to bring a serious decision. Each of the stories goes deep into one woman’s story, and the themes vary from domestic abuse, freedom, loss, migration, abortion, sexuality, gender…
No. of pp: 152
Awards and honors:
- Finalist for The Novel of the Year Award for 2019
Rights sold to:
Germany, Ukraine, Serbia.
Translation in English available HERE
Full English pdf available on request
Rights:
ID-Concept/Strange Forest Publishing
biljana.crvenkovska@id-concept.mk
info@cudnasuma.com
info@id-concept.mk
Outstanding title for children:
TIGER IN THE STREET (2021)
Inspired by the famous poem «Tiger on the Street» by Danil Kharms, this picture book tells a story of its own. It’s a story told through pictures— with almost no words at all, except for the poem and some interactive instructions for children. The book is about bullying, courage, standing up for yourself, and finding the «tiger» that lies deep inside. The interactive instructions are intended to put children «inside» the story and help them easily identify with the main character.
No. of pp: 48
Illustrator: Katerina Nikolovska
Publisher: Strange Forest, 2021
44 pages, paperback, 22.5 x 20.5 cm
Age: 4+
Awards and honors:
- White Ravens, 2023
- Most creative edition between two book fairs, Macedonian Association of Publishers (Second prize, 2021)
Translation available:
Full English pdf available on request
Rights:
ID-Concept/Strange Forest Publishing
biljana.crvenkovska@id-concept.mk
info@cudnasuma.com
info@id-concept.mk