Kjulavkova’s poetry is rich with mythical and literary references, as well as images of femininity, eroticism, and passion; in her distinctive voice – terse, tidal, oracular – she captures moments of longing, loss, pleasure, and desperation.
Biography
Katica Kjulavkova (born in 1951 in Veles) is a Macedonian poet, literary theorist and literary essayist. She has been a member of the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts since 2003. She was a professor of Literary Theory, Literary Hermeneutics and Creative Writing, at the Faculty of Philology, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje. Her poetry has been translated into many languages and represented in books, anthologies and selections of contemporary Macedonian, European and World poetry. She is the Vice President of the International PEN (by September 2008) and Editor-in-chief of the PEN collection “Diversity”. She is a manager of the European research project for poetics and hermeneutics (ERPH) at the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts. She has published several books on literary theory and hermeneutics (“Figurative Speech and Macedonian Poetry”, “Pact and Impact”, “Stone of Temptation”, “Cahiers”, “Small Literary Theory”, “Nostalgia for a System”, “Theory of Literature”, “Hermeneutics of Identity”, “The Pleasure of Interpretation”, “The Demon of Interpretation”), and has edited several readers and anthologies (“A Glossary of Literary Notions”, “The Balkan Image of the World”, “Violence and Art”, “Memory and Art”, “The Dialogue of Interpretations”, “The Theory of Intertextuality”, “Poetics and Hermeneutics”, “The Black Arab as a Figure of Memory”, “The Art of Dance”). Other publications include (poetry): “Annunciations” (1975), “The Act” (1978), “Our Consonant” (1981), “New Road” (1984), “Neuralgic Spots” (bilingual edition – Serbian and Macedonian, 1986), “Thirst” (1989), “Wild Thought” (1989), “Domino” (1993), “Via Lasciva” (into French, 1998), “Time Difference” (into English, 1998), “Preludium” (1998), “World-In-Between” (2000 and into Bulgarian, 2005), “Expulsion du mal” (into French, 2002), “Bland Angle” (2004), “Dorinte” (into Romanian), “Tin Ice” (2008), “Burning Fire” (Haiku poetry, into English, 2008), “Erato” (2008), short stories (poetic fiction): “Another Time” (1989), “Autopsia” (2006) and one poetic drama-play “Exorcising Evil” (1997).
Outstanding title:
THIRSTS, LASCIVIOUS POEMS (1989)
“Thirsts” (subtitled: Lascivious Poems) is a harmonious poetic collection composed of six cycles containing fifty poems. Each poem features elements that suggest a thematic core around which images, metaphors, and associations revolve: heaven, reality, death, desire, word, and anger. This indicates that the collection is designed as a thoughtful poetic composition with several concentric centers that spirally unwind from one another.
No. of pp: 98
Awards and honors:
- National poetry award “Miladinov Brothers” at the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1989
Latest title:
HEAVEN IS MY HOME (2024)
“Heaven is my home” (spiritual poetry) is poetry collection that captures the space and time of faith understood as an archetype, as an archetype of human consciousness to be, and not to rule. It is not a coincidence that the opposite of faith is not so much unbelief as betrayal. It is the betrayal (of faith) that is key to understanding the personal and collective traumas that are a consequence of (essential) betrayal, due to the betrayal of the ideals and the inalienable goods of the individual and the community with which he identifies.
No. of pp: 109
Awards and honors:
- National poetry award “Miladinov Brothers” at the Struga Poetry Evenings in 2024
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