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Poet, novelist, and translator Lidija Dimkovska <\/strong>was born in 1971 in Skopje, North Macedonia. Now she lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and translates Romanian and Slovenian literature in Macedonian. She has published seven books of poetry, four novels, one American diary, and one short stories collection. She edited an anthology of young Macedonian poetry, an anthology of contemporary Slovenian poetry in Macedonian, and two anthologies of contemporary minority and immigrant writing in Slovenia. For her poetry she received the Macedonian award for debut (1993), the German prize \u201cHubert Burda\u201d (2009), the Romanian prizes \u201cPoesis\u201d (2002) and \u201cTudor Arghezi\u201d (2012), the European prize \u201cPetru Krdu\u201d (2016), the Slovenian prize \u201cThe Glass of Immortality\u201d (2020), the Macedonian\/Albanian prize \u201cNaim Frasheri\u201d (2020) and the Macedonian prize \u201cBrothers Miladinov\u201d (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her novels \u201cHidden Camera\u201d (2004) and \u201cA Spare Life\u201d (2012) received the award of Writers\u2019 Association of Macedonia for the best prose book of the year and \u201cA Spare Life\u201d received also the European Union Prize for Literature (2013). Her last novel \u201cPersonal Identity Number\u201d (2023) received the highest Macedonian Novel of the Year Award and the regional feminist literary award \u201cStefica Cvek\u201d (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her work was also nominated for the Best Translated Book Award (the USA, once for poetry and once for prose), the Poet of the Freedom (Poland), the Brucke Berlin Prize (Germany), the Specimen Prize (Switzerland), the Balkanika Award, the MIRA Award (Slovenia) etc. Her books have been translated into 16 languages (English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, French, Croatian, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek and Latvian) and are in proces of translation in Ukrainian and Amharic. She has participated at numerous international literary festivals and readings and was a writer-in-residence in Iowa, London, Berlin, Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Bucharest, Krems, Tirana, Okinawa, and Split. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her upcoming book \u201cMonthly, Monthly\u201d, scheduled for release by the end of 2025, marks her debut in children\u2019s literature \u2013 a delightful tale crafted to enchant the imaginations of young readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Spare Life\u201d is an original story about two Macedonian Siamese twins joined at the head and their struggle for individuality, privacy and a life of their own. The novel is personal, political and historical narrative about the time we live in and the people we identify with. This was the title that brough the EU Prize for Literature in the hands of Lidija Dimkovska in 2013. England, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Ukraine (forthcoming) and Ethiopia (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPersonal Identity Number\u201d illuminates in all of its tragedy, one of the individual and collective destiny situations so characteristic of our era: the experience of exile. This book had acquired with three editions in a very quick time frame and apart from the attention of the audience, it also received the attention of the critics who turned to it with the best reviews. Slovenia, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia, Greece (forthcoming) and Italy (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you ever dream of a skyscraper, you are dreaming of the building of months in this novel. Life inside unfolds with laughter, hugs, whispered secrets\u2014and also injustice, quarrels, anger, and loneliness. In her first novel for children (young and old alike), Dimkovska blends tradition with modernity, folk tales with digital culture, creating a hilarious yet thought-provoking story. Moving between fantasy and fairy tale, with sharp humor, The Thirteenth opens important questions about exclusion, migration, moral values, social and family struggles, climate change, and ecology. A novel that asks: isn\u2019t each of us sometimes the \u2018thirteenth\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Illustrator:<\/strong> Ljupka Stojkova<\/a>Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\u0410 SPARE LIFE (2012)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Publishing centre TRI
244 pages, paperback, 14 x 20.5 cm
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