{"id":23926,"date":"2025-07-08T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/?p=23926"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:47:42","slug":"dimitrie-duracovski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/dimitrie-duracovski\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitrie DURACOVSKI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Duracovski\u2019s entire prose is marked by self-examination and self-interpretation, by the search for personal identity\u2014especially in the context of social (and wartime) crisis and life on the periphery.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Dimitrie Duracovski<\/strong> (1952) is a Macedonian writer belonging to the so-called Fifth Generation, or Fifth Circle of authors, who emerged on the Macedonian literary scene in the 1980s. His entire oeuvre is marked by postmodernism. With the novel \u201cPale Shadows, Distant Voices\u201d, he made a significant stylistic shift. In his two short story collections (\u201cSecret History\u201d and \u201cBlack Prophets\u201d), he wrote in the style of the fantastic and the oneiric, employing quotations, paraphrases, and borrowings from other literary works. In \u201cInsomnia\u201d, he abandoned strict, controlled functionality, introducing lengthy autobiographical passages and essayistic reflections. For th\u0435 novels \u201cPale Shadows, Distant Voices\u201d and \u201cInsomnia\u201d, he received the \u201cRacin Award\u201d in 2001 and 2015. In 2019, Duracovski received the \u201cOctober 11th<\/sup>\u201d Award for Lifetime Achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duracovski is the author of the books: \u201cSecret History\u201d (short stories, 1986), \u201cBlack Prophets\u201d (short stories, 1996), \u201cInsomnia\u201d (novel, 2000), \u201cPale Shadows, Distant Voices\u201d (novel, 2014), and \u201cAround Three After Midnight\u201d (hybrid prose, 2025). He has been a member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia since 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
INSOMNIA (2001)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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“Insomnia” <\/em>is one of the most unusual postmodern and intermedial novels in Macedonian literature. Published at the turn of the century, it is an experimental, diary-like, and factographic prose that covers a period of one year. The novel unifies notes, impressions, memories, quotes, media excerpts, electronic messages, sketches, comics… It blurs the line between reality and art by combining facts from the specific context of a traumatic and historical crisis with a unique provincial environment and the author’s own biography, transformed into autofiction.

No. of pp<\/strong>: 153<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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