{"id":951,"date":"2025-07-20T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/?post_type=cpt_services&#038;p=951"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:56:58","slug":"stefan-alijevikj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/stefan-alijevikj\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan ALIJEVIKJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-link-2-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cc35869e9e5c9e347c091b1f34914cd2\">Photo: Jelena Belikj<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Alijevikj predominantly writes short stories, which often move between autofiction and fiction, as well as between queer and feminist, with rare outings in magic realism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stefan Alijevikj <\/strong>(1991, Gevgelija) graduated from the Faculty of Philology \u201cBlaze Koneski\u201d in Skopje from the departments of General and Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature. He writes short stories, although he also experiments in other fictional genres as well as queer poetry. In 2022, Stefan published his debut book of short stories, \u201cEvening Bus,\u201d which was awarded in the regional selection for best feminist and queer literature \u201c\u0160tefica Cvek\u201d for the year 2023. His book was translated into Serbian that same year. His new book of short stories is due to be published in 2025. Works by Stefan are also available to read in several literary magazines, portals, and anthologies at home and in the region. A selection of his work is published in Kosovo as part of the collaborative book project \u201ce prap\u00ebseprap\u00eb, ne jemi k\u00ebtu,\u201d and in Croatia, in two anthologies, \u201cQueer Balkan\u201d and \u201cRu\u0161enje \u010detiri zida,\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Outstanding and latest title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-light-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-aa1a8cae4da1dcb0d4ee2341b7c671bd\"><strong>EVENING BUS (2022)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1.2.-Vecheren-avtobus-Stefan-Alijevikj_500x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1.2.-Vecheren-avtobus-Stefan-Alijevikj_500x800.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1.2.-Vecheren-avtobus-Stefan-Alijevikj_500x800-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1.2.-Vecheren-avtobus-Stefan-Alijevikj_500x800-370x592.jpg 370w, https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1.2.-Vecheren-avtobus-Stefan-Alijevikj_500x800-410x656.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvening Bus\u201d is Stefan\u2019s debut book of short stories. The book combines both autofiction and fiction narratives, and it\u2019s divided into three parts: Childhood, Summer, and Dream.<br><br><strong>No. of pp<\/strong>: 153<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Awards and honors<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winner of best feminist and queer literature award \u201c\u0160tefica Cvek\u201d for 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rights sold to: <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Serbia (&#8220;Kulturanova&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan ALIJEVIKJ<br \/>\nAlijevikj predominantly writes short stories, which often move between autofiction and fiction, as well as between queer and feminist, with rare outings in magic realism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,206,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23733,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/23733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mai.org.mk\/macedonian-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}