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Frosina Parmakovska<\/strong> was born in Skopje, 1985. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology \u201cBlaze Koneski\u201d, at the Department of General and comparative literature, in Skopje. She graduated with a master degree at the Institute of Macedonian literature, on the topic \u201cVariations of magical realism in world and Macedonian novel\u201d. In 2015, her thesis was published in Skopje by the publishing house \u201cIli-Ili\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has published short stories in Macedonian and foreign literature magazines. Her first novel \u201cWriting the Lost Spheres\u201d was released in 2013, by the publishing house \u201cKultura\u201d. In 2014, her second novel \u201cSour-Cherry Chronicle\u201d came out, published by \u201cIli-Ili\u201d and it was a finalist for the most prestigious literature award in Macedonia, Novel of the Year in organization of the magazine \u201cUtrinski vesnik\u201d. This novel is translated into Bulgarian and Ukrainian. Her third novel \u201cCountdown\u201d was released in 2017, published by \u201cIli-Ili\u201d. With this novel, she won the Novel of the Year Award for 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2018, Parmakovska received the award for Most successful author between two book fairs, organized by the Macedonian Association of Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020, her novel \u201cOn the way back\u201d (Ili-Ili) was published and soon after it was translated into Bulgarian. Her latest novel, \u201cI Can Still Do Something”, was published in 2023 (\u201cIli-Ili\u201d). The novel won the \u201cRacin Award\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since February 2018 Parmakovska has been a member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCountdown\u201d is a novel about a woman who gets married very young and faces the first signs of schizophrenia in her husband. Among other things, this is a novel about the treatment of schizophrenia in a small traditional setting, the challenges arising from the disease, youth and inexperience\u2026 In addition, the novel treats themes such as loss, infidelity, abortion, and all of this is placed in a detailed socio-political context with the changes, as a symbol of the character\u2019s inner world. Serbia, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201eI Can Still Do Something\u201c is a magical realist novel in which the main, male character tells the story in the first person. Through a procedure of intertextuality, several chapters are written by another character, serving as puzzle pieces. This is a novel about the inner disappearance and complete apocalypse of the life as it used to be. It covers quite universal but also contemporary topics such as in vitro fertilization, the problems of married couples seen from a male perspective, as well as finding the lost twin through the story of the sold babies in Yugoslavia from the 60s to the 90s of the last century.Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
COUNTDOWN (2017)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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I CAN STILL DO SOMETHING (2023)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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