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Olivera Kjorveziroska<\/strong> (1965) was born in Kumanovo. She completed her primary and secondary education in her hometown, and later graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, where she now lives and works as an editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is the author of the following books: \u201cThird Floor\u201d and \u201cThe Tall Whites\u201d (poetry); \u201cThe Little Bun Mirna\u201d and \u201cMy Brother from the Thirteenth Floor\u201d (children\u2019s novels); \u201cGrandpa Mile\u201d and \u201cZorki and Cvetka\u201d (picture books for children); \u201cDo Dreams Open Up Work\u201d, \u201cOne Text and One Woman\u201d and \u201cHalfway\u201d (criticism and essays); \u201cLou\u2019s Locked Body\u201d, \u201cAb\u2019t\u201d and \u201cThree Marias\u201d (novels for adults); \u201cThe Sorrows of the Young Proofreader\u201d, \u201c(En)twined Stories\u201d, \u201cTwo Pillows\u201d, \u201c(Sewn) Stories\u201d, \u201cSugar-Free Short Stories\u201d, \u201cThe Streets That Do Not Exist\u201d and \u201cLeap Years\u201d (short stories for adults).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her works have been included in some twenty anthologies of contemporary Macedonian short stories, published both at home and abroad. Her stories have been translated into English, French, Hungarian, Albanian, Czech, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Polish, Russian, German, and Greek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is a multiple recipient of significant short story awards in Macedonia, and for \u201cEntwined Stories\u201d in 2003 she received the \u201cStale Popov\u201d Award for Best Prose from the Society of Writers of Macedonia. In 2025, she received the \u201cRacin Award\u201d for her latest novel \u201cThree Marias\u201d. She is a member of the MWA and of the Macedonian PEN Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne of the most captivating narrative oeuvres among authors introduced as \u2018new voices\u2019 at the beginning of the 21st<\/sup> century is that of Olivera Kjorveziroska. Her short stories offer a wide narrative range, stretching from the skaz<\/em>\u2014as a paraphrase of the oral tradition model\u2014to the sophisticated, intertextual, and feminist-toned narrative structures that stand as a bold postmodern response to modernist erudition, intertextuality, and grotesqueness.\u201d Olivera Kjorveziroska \u201cThree Marias\u201d is a carefully conceived homage to Slavko Janevski, which is neither a classical dedication nor a remake of a specific work. The novel contains three independent stories about three different women who share the same name \u2013 Maria \u2013 and who wish to abandon their current lives because of a sinful love, whether their own or someone else\u2019s. Real and imaginary people and creatures, barefoot and lined up in a long queue, come to visit the greatest shoemaker in the world. In his shop, there are shoes for everyone, and no one has ever left barefoot! Some immediately find the perfect pair for themselves, others settle on the shoes they have long dreamed of, some choose the ones that feel the most comfortable, while others rush, put on the completely wrong pair, and soon take them off again\u2026 And some, unfortunately (or fortunately!), will have to wear the last pair left in the shop\u2014shoes that may appeal greatly to them, yet never fit quite right. Who is who? Who is overjoyed with shoes that are far too big\u2014and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Illustrator:<\/strong> <\/a>Natalia \u0141ukomska<\/a><\/strong>Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
KNITTED STORIES (2003)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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THREE MARIAS (2025)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Although it is a contemporary novel set in our time and in our micro-space (Skopje), it incorporates folk customs from northeastern Macedonia: adorning the groom with money, burying the deceased with a doll, as well as the wedding \u201cmavile\u201d from the Veles region. Folkloric rituals, beliefs and superstitions, tragic destinies, fates and karasevda (fatal passion) are motifs that, in a certain sense, \u201cjustify\u201d the subtitle of the novel \u2013 a basma novel (a novel-spell).
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SHOES (2025)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Ars Lamina \u2013 Publications
36 pages, paperback, 24 x 17 cm
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