Parmakovska writes realist and magical-realist fiction. Always uses first person narration. Her novels are characterized by the strong psychologization of the characters.
Biography
Frosina Parmakovska was born in Skopje, 1985. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”, at the Department of General and comparative literature, in Skopje. She graduated with a master degree at the Institute of Macedonian literature, on the topic “Variations of magical realism in world and Macedonian novel”. In 2015, her thesis was published in Skopje by the publishing house “Ili-Ili”.
She has published short stories in Macedonian and foreign literature magazines. Her first novel “Writing the Lost Spheres” was released in 2013, by the publishing house “Kultura”. In 2014, her second novel “Sour-Cherry Chronicle” came out, published by “Ili-Ili” and it was a finalist for the most prestigious literature award in Macedonia, Novel of the Year in organization of the magazine “Utrinski vesnik”. This novel is translated into Bulgarian and Ukrainian. Her third novel “Countdown” was released in 2017, published by “Ili-Ili”. With this novel, she won the Novel of the Year Award for 2017.
In 2018, Parmakovska received the award for Most successful author between two book fairs, organized by the Macedonian Association of Publishers.
In 2020, her novel “On the way back” (Ili-Ili) was published and soon after it was translated into Bulgarian. Her latest novel, “I Can Still Do Something”, was published in 2023 (“Ili-Ili”). The novel won the “Racin Award”.
Since February 2018 Parmakovska has been a member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia.
Outstanding title:
COUNTDOWN (2017)
“Countdown” is a novel about a woman who gets married very young and faces the first signs of schizophrenia in her husband. Among other things, this is a novel about the treatment of schizophrenia in a small traditional setting, the challenges arising from the disease, youth and inexperience… In addition, the novel treats themes such as loss, infidelity, abortion, and all of this is placed in a detailed socio-political context with the changes, as a symbol of the character’s inner world.
No. of pp: 211
Awards and honors:
- Novel of the Year Award for 2017
Rights sold to:
Serbia, Bulgaria.
Latest title:
I CAN STILL DO SOMETHING (2023)
„I Can Still Do Something“ is a magical realist novel in which the main, male character tells the story in the first person. Through a procedure of intertextuality, several chapters are written by another character, serving as puzzle pieces. This is a novel about the inner disappearance and complete apocalypse of the life as it used to be. It covers quite universal but also contemporary topics such as in vitro fertilization, the problems of married couples seen from a male perspective, as well as finding the lost twin through the story of the sold babies in Yugoslavia from the 60s to the 90s of the last century.
No. of pp: 211
Awards and honors:
- “Racin Award” for the best novel by Macedonian author in 2023
Rights:
Ili-ili Publishing house
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