Photo: Igor Dimovski
Vladimir Martinovski is a painter with words that sing. His poetry is synesthetic and ecstatic.
Biography
Vladimir Martinovski (1974) is a poet, essayist, prose writer, literary translator, and anthologist. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” in Skopje, where he also received his MA in 2001. He earned his PhD at the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle. He works as a full professor at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, where since September 2023 he has been serving as Dean. He is a member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia and President of Macedonian PEN.
His poetry has been published in some twenty languages and included in numerous anthologies and thematic selections.
Martinovski is also engaged in music, having participated in musical projects and releases with the Orchestra of Traditional Folk Instruments “Pece Atanasovski” and with the groups Kaldarma and Baklava.
He is the author of numerous poetry collections for both adults and children, writes prose and academic papers, prepares collections and anthologies, and is active as a literary translator. He has received several prestigious national awards, including the “Miladinov Brothers” Award of the Struga Poetry Evenings, the “Dimitar Mitrev” Award of the Society of Writers of Macedonia, the “Ante’s Gold Coin” Award of the international poetry festival “Ante Popovski,” among others.
His poetry (selected poems or entire collections) has been published in about twenty languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Albanian, English, Bosnian, Bulgarian, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Turkish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, and Spanish.
Outstanding title:
QUARTETS TO READ, WATCH, SING, AND LISTEN TO (2010)
“Quartets -to Read, Watch, Sing, and Listening to” is a collection with an intermedial character. This visual poetry, with its linguistic (sonic and graphic) solutions, poetic ludism, and allusion to the essential dilemmas of our existence captured in a subtle and laconic way, the eros of life, its citationality, and associativeness, is characterized by a “cosmopolitan orientation imbued with the purity and lightness of an almost childlike view of the world,” as the great author and critic Vlada Urošević says.
No. of pp: 103
Awards and honors:
- “Miladinov Brothers” Award of the Struga Poetry Evenings (2010)
Rights sold to:
Czech Republic (Větrné mlýny)
Rights:
Kliker Knigi
dare_us@kliker.mk
Vladimir Martinovski
martinovski@gmail.com
Latest title:
HOURS WITHOUT A CLOCK (2025)
“Hours Without a Clock” is not an ordinary book; it is an outpouring of colors, shapes, words, and meanings. This rare bibliophile edition, in which the text is interwoven with vividly colored digital graphics, offers a unique reading experience that engages all the senses. In literary terms, it is a poetic work composed of fourteen sonnets of fourteen lines each, woven into a sonnet wreath, arranged according to the well-known Prešeren–Petrarchan model.
No. of pp: 40
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