{"id":23501,"date":"2025-07-03T11:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/?p=23501"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:28:22","slug":"katica-kjulavkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/katica-kjulavkova\/","title":{"rendered":"Katica KJULAVKOVA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Kjulavkova\u2019s poetry is rich with mythical and literary references, as well as images of femininity, eroticism, and passion; in her distinctive voice \u2013 terse, tidal, oracular \u2013 she captures moments of longing, loss, pleasure, and desperation.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Katica Kjulavkova<\/strong> (born in 1951 in Veles) is a Macedonian poet, literary theorist and literary essayist. She has been a member of the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts since 2003. She was a professor of Literary Theory, Literary Hermeneutics and Creative Writing, at the Faculty of Philology, \u201cSs. Cyril and Methodius\u201d University in Skopje. Her poetry has been translated into many languages and represented in books, anthologies and selections of contemporary Macedonian, European and World poetry. She is the Vice President of the International PEN (by September 2008) and Editor-in-chief of the PEN collection \u201cDiversity\u201d. She is a manager of the European research project for poetics and hermeneutics (ERPH) at the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts. She has published several books on literary theory and hermeneutics (\u201cFigurative Speech and Macedonian Poetry\u201d, \u201cPact and Impact\u201d, \u201cStone of Temptation\u201d, \u201cCahiers\u201d, \u201cSmall Literary Theory\u201d, \u201cNostalgia for a System\u201d, \u201cTheory of Literature\u201d, \u201cHermeneutics of Identity\u201d, \u201cThe Pleasure of Interpretation\u201d, \u201cThe Demon of Interpretation\u201d), and has edited several readers and anthologies (\u201cA Glossary of Literary Notions\u201d, \u201cThe Balkan Image of the World\u201d, \u201cViolence and Art\u201d, \u201cMemory and Art\u201d, \u201cThe Dialogue of Interpretations\u201d, \u201cThe Theory of Intertextuality\u201d, \u201cPoetics and Hermeneutics\u201d, \u201cThe Black Arab as a Figure of Memory\u201d, \u201cThe Art of Dance\u201d). Other publications include (poetry): \u201cAnnunciations\u201d (1975), \u201cThe Act\u201d (1978), \u201cOur Consonant\u201d (1981), \u201cNew Road\u201d (1984), \u201cNeuralgic Spots\u201d (bilingual edition \u2013 Serbian and Macedonian, 1986), \u201cThirst\u201d (1989), \u201cWild Thought\u201d (1989), \u201cDomino\u201d (1993), \u201cVia Lasciva\u201d (into French, 1998), \u201cTime Difference\u201d (into English, 1998), \u201cPreludium\u201d (1998), \u201cWorld-In-Between\u201d (2000 and into Bulgarian, 2005), \u201cExpulsion du mal\u201d (into French, 2002), \u201cBland Angle\u201d (2004), \u201cDorinte\u201d (into Romanian), \u201cTin Ice\u201d (2008), \u201cBurning Fire\u201d (Haiku poetry, into English, 2008), \u201cErato\u201d (2008), short stories (poetic fiction): \u201cAnother Time\u201d (1989), \u201cAutopsia\u201d (2006) and one poetic drama-play \u201cExorcising Evil\u201d (1997).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
THIRSTS<\/a>, LASCIVIOUS POEMS (1989)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThirsts\u201d (subtitled: Lascivious Poems) is a harmonious poetic collection composed of six cycles containing fifty poems. Each poem features elements that suggest a thematic core around which images, metaphors, and associations revolve: heaven, reality, death, desire, word, and anger. This indicates that the collection is designed as a thoughtful poetic composition with several concentric centers that spirally unwind from one another.

No. of pp<\/strong>: 98<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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