In her novels, Mladenovska Angjelkov explores the memories whose power of transformation determines the present, skillfully mixing urbanophilia, polyphonic chronicles, archives of nostalgia, documentary prose, the silent family history…
Biography
Snezhana Mladenovska Angjelkov (b. 1977, Skopje) graduated from FDA in the department of film and TV editing in 2000 with the title “Master of Arts – in Film and TV editing” she obtained in 2012. She is an author skilled in autobiographical documentary prose with a strong personal stamp and an atypical female script, which does not fit into preconceived notions.
Her first novel, “Eleven Women” (2011), won Utrinski Vesnik’s Novel of the Year Аward and went through four more editions. In 2014, she published the film essay book “Life Convincing Images” dedicated to the films of director Vladimir Blaževski. The second novel “Keep Quiet with an Open Mouth” (2019) was a finalist for the Novel of the Year Award of the “Slavko Janevski” Foundation. Her third novel, “The People, not the City” (2022), is a layered, hybrid work, documentary prose, a book dedicated to Skopje, which exists no more. In 2024, the new novel titled “Iodine” was published. As an author, she is represented in the thematic short story collection “Silent Anesthesia” (2016, “Antolog”) and in the anthologies “Best European Fiction 2017” and “Contemporary Macedonian Fiction” (2019) by “Dalkey Archive Press”. She participated in the 11th edition of “PRO-ZA Balkan”, International Literature Festival (2023).
Outstanding title:
ELEVEN WOMAN (2011)
“This is a novel that carries the spirit of the Macedonian semi-urban or quasi-urban environment in the 1980s, setting new parameters in the storytelling technique through framing or film editing technique in storytelling, simultaneously subverting genre conventions. Until recently, the anonymous Snezhana Mladenovska Angjelkov won the Novel of the Year Award for her first novel, something that has never happened in the history of this most important award for prose in Macedonia!” – Venko Andonovski
No. of pp: 74
Awards and honors:
- Novel of the Year Award for 2011
Latest title:
IODINE (2024)
The novel, which begins as a search for the personal stories of family workers in Split, Republic of Croatia, does not change direction in the vivisection of humanity and the confrontation with the pain of missing moral values. In a weakened physical and questionable mental state, the protagonist, through a day and night, is confronted with the immoral and shameful behavior of individuals who she says are produced on various social pillars and are a direct threat to the survival of man as a rational being. The novel is a critique of modern society, a party and a powerful voice in the longing for honesty, truthfulness and justice. The action is original to the real events that take place in August 2023 and the events of the last decade in the city.
No. of pp: 97
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