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Jovana Matevska Atanasova<\/strong> (born in 1991 in Bitola) is a licensed psychologist by profession. She is the author of seven books: the novel \u201cThe Snows of Tambov\u201d (2015), the e-novel \u201cLetters in the Library\u201d (2016), which is one of the award-winning books by the Makedonika Foundation and UNESCO for introducing young authors into digital publishing, the psychological guide \u201cI in Superlative\u201d (2021); the short story collections \u201cFamine\u201d (2021) and \u201cThree in Thirteen\u201d, for which she received the \u201cLiterary Circle for Prose\u201d award for 2022 from the Bitola Literary Circle Writers\u2019 Association, and the picture books \u201cThe Rebellion of the Numbers\u201d (2023) and \u201cColorful Irises\u201d (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has also won several awards for short stories: two purchase awards in the short story competitions organized by the daily newspaper \u201cNova Makedonija\u201d in 2015 and 2016, a double laureate of the \u201cZhivko Chingo\u201d award in 2020 (for the story \u201cFamine\u201d) and 2021 (for the story \u201cCigar in Osaka\u201d), and in 2022, she won the first prize in the short story competition organized by the Holocaust Fund, \u201cTell a Photograph\u201d. For her novel \u201cFish in\/out of the Net\u201d, she received the Pegasus Award for the best unpublished novel in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her stories have been translated into English, Serbian, and Albanian, and are included in multilingual collections and anthologies. She also writes literary and theater reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do life offline and a life before mobile phones exist \u2013 these are the two big philosophical questions that worry the ‘digital natives,’ better known as Generation Z. Fish in\/out of the Net is a young adult novel which humorously addresses the issues that affect contemporary teenagers, such as their addiction to mobile devices, multilingualism as a phenomenon of Generation Z, and their bewilderment in front of the real world. \u201cColourful Irises\u201d is a picture book that expands the series of picture books for children with an unusual, extraordinary literary and visual work intended primarily for adults. The text by Jovana Matevska Atanasova and the watercolour illustrations by Simonida Filipova Kitanovska delve deeply and lyrically into a delicate family situation in which the father is blind and, metaphorically speaking, lives through his daughter\u2019s eyes. With great sensitivity and a distinctive artistic sensibility, \u201cColourful Irises\u201d both writes and draws the love between father and daughter, where darkness and light are held in a firm embrace. Although the picture book is meant for adults, it is \u201cruled\u201d by a child, making it equally suitable for children to read or to have read to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Illustrator: <\/strong>Simonida Filipova Kitanovska Ars Lamina \u2013 PublicationsOutstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
FISH IN\/OUT OF THE NET (2024)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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COLOURFUL IRISES (2024)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Publisher: <\/strong>Libi, a part of Ars Lamina \u2013 Publications, Skopje, 2024
27 pages, paperback, 210 x 210 mm
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