Photo: Sasho Dimoski
Both poetry and short stories written by Bakovska are lyrical; she combines personal memories and delicate emotional states of mind with reflections about Macedonian historical and political contexts.
Biography
Elizabeta Bakovska (1969) received her BA and MA at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” in Skopje, from the English Language and Literature Department and holds Ph.D. in gender studies from Euro-Balkan Institute. She was the editor-in-chief of Blesok, an electronic magazine for culture and literature (www.blesok.mk). She translates, writes poetry and prose (mainly short stories), as well as literary theory and criticism. Her poetry, fiction and literary criticism have been published in English, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, Slovenian, Serbian, Bosnian, Ukrainian and Montenegrin languages.
She received the first award at “Nova Makedonija” short story annual competition (2010) and the first award at the short story competition “Skopje and the 1963 Disastrous Earthquake” (2016). She wrote one of the four awarded stories for children at the “Modern Fairy Tales from Macedonia” competition (2020). She also received the “Ante’s Gold Coin” award for unpublished poetry collection at the International Poetry and Cultural Competition “Ante Popovski – Ante’s Pen” (2021). The book of short stories and photographs “I Write a Short Story in My Head” that she coauthored with Sasho Dimoski received the Most Creative Book Award of the Macedonian Association of Publishers (2022). In 2024 she was the poet in focus at the 36th edition of the Velestovo International Poetry Festival.
Outstanding title:
I WRITE A SHORT STORY IN MY HEAD (2021)
“I Write a Short Story in My Head” is a collection of short stories and a photobook, a coauthorship with Sasho Dimoski. The stories in this book were written in a period of some fifty days before and immediately after the death of author’s mother. They are compressed memories and thoughts initiated by this event, combined with 115 photos, from the photo archives of Dimoski, and some documentary photos from the family archives of Bakovska.
No. of pp: 144
Awards and honors:
- Award for most creative issue by the Macedonian Association of Publishers (MAI) in 2022
Latest title:
THE EVERTHING OF DREAMS (2024)
“The Everything of Dreams” is a collection of very short surrealistic stories, divided in five parts. In the first part, the stories are dated dreams of the author dreamt during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, while in the other parts they are short thoughts and memories often related to her family. The book ends with two longer stories dealing with home, trauma and loss.
No. of pp: 86
Rights:
Elizabeta Bakovska
bakovska@t.mk
bakovska@yahoo.com