{"id":24050,"date":"2025-07-21T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/?p=24050"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:24:16","slug":"andrej-al-asadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/andrej-al-asadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrej AL-ASADI"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Andrej Al-Asadi is one of the leading poets of the younger generation. His poetry is profoundly philosophical and mystical, weaving together the Macedonian poetic tradition with Sufi verse.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

Biography<\/h5>\n\n

Andrej Al-Asadi<\/strong> was born in London, United Kingdom, in 1996. He is author of the following books of poetry: Midnight Blues<\/strong><\/em> (2014), Under the Dervish Sikke<\/strong><\/em> (2018), Empyrean Geometry<\/strong><\/em> (2019), Everyone is Everyone\u2019s Mirror <\/strong><\/em>(2022) and Rubedo <\/strong><\/em>(2025). For his collection of short stories The Other Past<\/em>, Al-Asadi won the award for the best debut prose manuscript \u201cThe New Ones<\/strong>\u201d in 2018. He also published his second book of short stories in 2021, The Morning of the Insomniacs<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong> For his epic poem Never Before or After<\/strong><\/em> he got the national Grigor Prlichev Award for Best Poem<\/strong> for 2024. He has taken part in a number of poetry readings and events such as the Struga Poetry Evenings, Stih u Regiji (SUR) in Zagreb, Croatia and the 5th Patras World Poetry Festival in Patras, Greece. Andrej four times has been nominated for the prestigious Brothers Miladinov Award in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2025. He is currently a member of the executive board of the Skopje Poetry Festival – SPF. Recently, he was interviewed for the prestigious American magazine World Literature Today<\/em>. His poetry has been translated in various languages such as Serbian, Croatian, Italian, English, Arabic, etc.<\/p>\n\n

Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n
EVERYBODY\u2019S A MIRROR TO EVERYBODY (2022)<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n
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\u201cThis manuscript shines with its universality and specificity, carrying a strong message that existence has its own profound spiritual probe, and that love is a way of life in which deception, with its fatality, builds new castles of wisdom, but also experience for that other life which we cannot comprehend and only conjecture. The reflection of Andrej Al-Asadi is fundamental, far-reaching, and multilayered.\u201d \u2013 Sa\u0161o Ognenovski

No. of pp<\/strong>: 56<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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