{"id":23336,"date":"2025-07-11T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/?post_type=cpt_services&p=23336"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:23:58","slug":"biljana-crvenkovska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/biljana-crvenkovska\/","title":{"rendered":"Biljana CRVENKOVSKA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo: Kire Galevski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crvenkovska experiments with genres, building intricate narrative structures and layers. In her novels, as well as in her children\u2019s and YA fiction, she deals with themes like human impact on nature, violence, freedom, loss, migration, sexuality, gender and human existence in general.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Biljana Crvenkovska<\/strong> is an award-winning author and scriptwriter, editor and translator. She writes for children, youth and adults: novels, short stories, picture books, middle grade fiction, poetry, plays and essays. As scriptwriter, she has written many screenplays for TV series for all ages, including the popular Macedonian animated series \u201cBibi\u2019s World\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her books for children and adults she won or was shortlisted for numerous awards. Both her novels for adults \u201cNine Stories about Miss Sith\u201d and \u201cHouse above the Waves\u201d were finalists for the most prestigious Macedonian literary prize \u201cNovel of the year\u201d. Her collection of \u201cFairytales from Macedonia for the entire year\u201d and the picture book \u201cTiger on the Street\u201d (both done together with the illustrator Katerina Nikolovska) were included into the White Ravens catalogue (2020, 2023), and her collection of stories for children \u201cMama Ana\u2019s Goodnight Stories\u201d won the most prestigious prize for children\u2019s literature in Macedonia \u2013 \u201cVan\u010do Nikoleski\u201d in 2020. In 2025 she was named Author of the Year by the Association of Macedonian Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her books are translated in Serbian, Croatian, English, French, Albanian, German, Turkish, Slovenian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crvenkovska is a member of The Association of Macedonian Writers and of the Association of Macedonian Film Workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025 she has won The regional feminist and queer literature award \u201c\u0160tefica Cvek\u201d for her latest children novel Tales from the Tinkling Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding title for adults:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
NINE STORIES ABOUT MISS SITH (2019)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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“Nine stories about Miss Sith\u201c by Biljana S. Crvenkovska is well thought-of and carefully structured novel. It functions as a collection of stories as well as a novel made of one frame-story, that contains another nine stories, through which several joint light motives prevail. The quiet steps of the cat – the real one, the imagined one, the symbolic one – but also her unexpected appearances are putting together in a tight composition the strings from the narrative moon phases and fugas. In the stories there are situations in which all female protagonists find themselves at crossroads, situations in which they need to bring a serious decision. Each of the stories goes deep into one woman\u2019s story, and the themes vary from domestic abuse, freedom, loss, migration, abortion, sexuality, gender…

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

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