Biography
Nenad Joldeski was born in 1986 in Struga, North Macedonia. He holds a degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in General and Comparative Literature from the “Blaze Koneski” Faculty of Philology in Skopje, where he completed his thesis on “Intertextual Irony in the Modern and Postmodern Short Story.”
His debut book, The Stain of Enhalon, a collection of short stories written in the Struga dialect and sociolect, received the Novite Award for Best Debut Prose Work in 2009.
In 2012, he published the short-story collection Everyone Has Their Own Lake, for which he received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016. The book has been translated and published in several European languages. In 2018, he published the novella Swimming Against the Current.
Outstanding title:
HOW YOU AND I FALL (2026)
How You and I Fall is a book that turns collapse into language. It is a book about a world that burns, freezes, disappears, and is born again. Its endings and transformations become the coordinates of a carefully constructed poetic universe. The collection does not romanticize collapse; on the contrary, it reads it as a fundamental condition of the contemporary world, in which love remains the only place of resistance.
Here, the world is constantly falling apart: into fire, sand, mist, silence. Yet each of its endings opens onto the same question: what remains when everything we thought was holding us together falls away? These poems turn falling into a shared experience and seek the answer between two bodies, two voices, and one persistent “we.”
No. of pp: 56
Awards and honors:
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- European Union Prize for Literature in 2016.
Rights:
Publisher: Begemot, 2026
Foreign rights: info@begemot.mk
Pages: 48
Genre: poetry