Mihajlovska-Georgieva transfers her life experience into paper with a subtle way dealing with sensitive and taboo subjects that we usually avoid discussing. Her creation – full of fateful coincidences, longings and miraculous loves, lively and deeply mystical.
Biography
Jagoda Mihajlovska-Georgieva (born in 1953 in Skopje) has worked as a journalist, essayist and film critic in the print media, and has been an editor in “Telma TV” for fifteen years. She is author of a series of travel documentaries about Bombay and Goa in India, as well as Kathmandu and the Himalayas in Nepal. She has published the following books: “My Skin” (short story book, 1988), “I, the Boy Lightning” (children’s novel, 1989), “Mirrors – Crazy Herbs” (essays, 1994), “Igbal, My Secret” (children’s and adult’s book, 2000), “The Stone of Your Day – Himalayan Story” (novel, 2004), “Indigo Bombay” (novel, 2008) “Boldly Red Lipstick” (short stories, 2012), “Montastery Fuenterabia” (novel, 2017). She has won several awards for short story, the “Racin Award” for best book of prose in 2005 (“The Stone of Your Day – Himalayan Story”) and The Novel of the Year Award by “Utrinski Vesnik” in 2008 (“Indigo Bombay”). She has been featured in many short stories anthologies in several languages, and the novel “Indigo Bombay” has been published in Serbian in 2012 and translated into English, in expectation of a potential publisher.
Outstanding title:
INDIGO BOMBAY (2008)
“Indigo Bombay” is a novel which for the first time in Macedonian literature opens issues about transplantation, donation or sale of internal organs, about poverty versus health, health versus morality. Although is expected to attract a great number of readers, it is not a hit novel at all in terms of cheap sensationalism. On the contrary, this novel is and can be anything else but a good sold breaking news in the style of our stressful everyday life: a love novel, a sensual novel, a novel-corrective of the reality, a novel-horizon with widespread and multiplied aspects of points of view.
No. of pp: 367
Awards and honors:
- The Novel of the Year Award for 2008
Rights sold to:
Serbian.
English translation available HERE.
Latest title:
THE MONASTERY OF FUENTERRABIA (2017)
After long years in the monastery, He departs from his monastic life. He travels to Fuenterrabia. She is also a stranger there. They are different in every way. They share only the deep seclusion within themselves. That is what they recognize in each other one day by the Ocean. Imagine what can be found inside their own – and our own – monastic cells deep within, in the words, in the silences. Is the eternal human longing to reach beyond the walls which separate our souls… our bodies… to no avail? An eccentric story, passionately and breathtakingly accounted written by a skilled author and by skill we do not mean expertise. We mean art. Real content literature.
No. of pp: 229
Rights sold to:
Serbia, Bulgaria.
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