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Andrej Al-Asadi is one of the leading poets of the younger generation. His poetry is profoundly philosophical and mystical, weaving together the Macedonian poetic tradition with Sufi verse.

Biography

Andrej Al-Asadi was born in London, United Kingdom, in 1996. He is author of the following books of poetry: Midnight Blues (2014), Under the Dervish Sikke (2018), Empyrean Geometry (2019), Everyone is Everyone’s Mirror (2022) and Rubedo (2025). For his collection of short stories The Other Past, Al-Asadi won the award for the best debut prose manuscript “The New Ones” in 2018. He also published his second book of short stories in 2021, The Morning of the Insomniacs. For his epic poem Never Before or After he got the national Grigor Prlichev Award for Best Poem for 2024. He has taken part in a number of poetry readings and events such as the Struga Poetry Evenings, Stih u Regiji (SUR) in Zagreb, Croatia and the 5th Patras World Poetry Festival in Patras, Greece. Andrej four times has been nominated for the prestigious Brothers Miladinov Award in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2025. He is currently a member of the executive board of the Skopje Poetry Festival – SPF. Recently, he was interviewed for the prestigious American magazine World Literature Today. His poetry has been translated in various languages such as Serbian, Croatian, Italian, English, Arabic, etc.

Outstanding title:

“This manuscript shines with its universality and specificity, carrying a strong message that existence has its own profound spiritual probe, and that love is a way of life in which deception, with its fatality, builds new castles of wisdom, but also experience for that other life which we cannot comprehend and only conjecture. The reflection of Andrej Al-Asadi is fundamental, far-reaching, and multilayered.” – Sašo Ognenovski

No. of pp: 56

Awards and honors:
  • Shortlisted for the “Miladinov Brothers” Award at Struga Poetry Evenings for 2023
Latest title:

“The poetry of Andrej Al-Asadi belongs among the most distinctive achievements of younger contemporary Macedonian poetry. Each new book by this already established author is a true event for our cultural life. His poetic expression is defined by attributes that point to dedication, the introduction of new themes, and an insistence on a highly articulated Macedonian poetic discourse. Such associative density reinforces the lyrical units, intensifies the magical atmosphere, and fills them with the resonance of linguistic sonority as well as with unexpected, yet deeply motivated and well-founded moves, which offer the reader a poetic experience of the highest lyrical order.” – Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski

No. of pp: 54

Awards and honors:
  • Shortlisted for the “Miladinov Brothers” Award at Struga Poetry Evenings for 2025
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