{"id":23330,"date":"2025-07-12T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/?post_type=cpt_services&p=23330"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:23:27","slug":"rumena-buzarovska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/rumena-buzarovska\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumena BU\u017dAROVSKA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo: Neboj\u0161a Babi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bu\u017earovska writes with the unwavering gaze of someone who sees it all. Fearless, she opens doors illuminating everything that lies within.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Rumena Bu\u017earovska<\/strong> (b. 1981) is a writer, literary translator and social commentator. The author of four volumes of short stories translated into more than fifteen languages, her book \u201cMy Husband\u201d has received critical acclaim in Europe (named book of the week in the German weekly \u201cSpiegel\u201d, declared one of the most impressive books of the year 2022 in France after its publication by \u201cGallimard\u201d) and has been adapted into six stage productions (Skopje, Ljubljana, Athens, Belgrade, Zagreb and Budapest). In 2024, he published his debut novel, “Tony”, which quickly garnered remarkable success. A second edition was released within just one month, followed by a third edition currently available in bookstores across the country. International rights have been sold in seven countries, most notably to the esteemed French publisher Gallimard. Other territories include Spain, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, and Croatia. She is the author of two non-fiction books: the essays \u201cNext to God, America\u201d (2024) and a study on humor in contemporary American and Macedonian short fiction (2012). Bu\u017earovska is a literary translator from English into Macedonian, having translated author such as J.M Coetzee, Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote, Flannery O\u2019Connor and Iain Reid. In 2016 she was selected as one of the Ten New Voices of Europe by Literary Europe Live platform within Literature Across Frontiers, she is the 2017 winner of the regional Edo Budi\u0161a prize awarded by the Istria County in Croatia, is the recipient of the 2018 Fall Residency at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and a fellow of the Landys und Gyr Stiftung in Switzerland (2022). She was named Author of the Year by the Association of Macedonian Publishers in 2021. Bu\u017earovska is also co-initiator and co-organizer of the \u201cPeachPreach\u201d women\u2019s storytelling event in North Macedonia and co-host of the \u201cRadio Mileva\u201d feminist podcast. She is a professor of American literature and translation at the State University in Skopje.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumena Bu\u017earovska\u2019s prose cuts clean through the fa\u00e7ade of everyday life\u2014unsentimental, astute, and laced with dark humor. Her stories delve into the tender fault lines of intimate relationships, exposing how societal expectations shape the lives of couples, parents, and children. Through piercing irony and emotional depth, her protagonists navigate the complexities of a region caught in ongoing economic turbulence, patriarchal constraints, and the lingering gaze of Western cultural dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
MY HUSBAND (2014)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Counting eleven editions in Macedonian, this collection of short prose contains eleven stories in first-person narration by married women who are seemingly speaking about their husbands, but in fact revealing much more about themselves and the devastating way patriarchal society treats them. Deeply tragic, but also comic due to the way Bu\u017earovska treats subjects that society deems taboo, this book is a staple of feminist reading and a classic among Balkan audiences.

No. of pp<\/strong>: 152<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Awards<\/strong> and honors:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n