{"id":379,"date":"2024-09-24T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writers.mk\/?post_type=dt_portfolio&p=379"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:35:19","slug":"lidija-dimkovska","status":"publish","type":"dt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/writers.mk\/en\/writers\/lidija-dimkovska\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidija Dimkovska"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poet, novelist, and translator\u00a0Lidija\u00a0Dimkovska\u00a0was born in 1971 in\u00a0Skopje, North Macedonia.\nShe took a Ph.D. degree in Romanian poetry at the University of Bucharest, Romania where she\nworked as lecturer of Macedonian language and literature. Now she lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia\nand translates Romanian and Slovenian literature in Macedonian. In her native, Macedonian\nlanguage she has published seven books of poetry, four novels, one American diary, and one\nshort stories collection. She edited an anthology of young Macedonian poetry, an anthology of\ncontemporary Slovenian poetry in Macedonian, and two anthologies of contemporary minority\nand immigrant writing in Slovenia. Between 2016 and 2019 she served as the president of the\njury for the international literary prize \u201cVilenica\u201d in Slovenia and between 2013 and 2016 she\nwas a member of the international jury for the international poetry award for life achievement\n\u201cHerbert'' in Warsaw, Poland. Currently, she is a member of the International jury for the\nEuropean Award for Poetry Petru Krdu, Vrsac, Serbia. She has participated at numerous\ninternational literary festivals and readings and was a writer-in-residence in Iowa, London,\nBerlin, Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Bucharest, Krems, Tirana, Okinawa, and Split. Poems, excerpts\nfrom her novels, essays,\u00a0short stories, interviews and reviews about her books appeared in,\u00a0\namong others: Times Literary Supplement, American Poetry Review, World Literature Today,\nThe Rumpus, Tin House, the Paris Review, the Literary Hub, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,\nDie Zeit, Foreword, The White Review, Asymptote, Publishers Weekly, BBC World Service,\nWords Without Borders, Columbia Journal, Los Angeles Review, \u00a0Boston Review, Poetry\nInternational, Plume, New Humanist, etc. Her books have been translated into 16 languages\n(English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, French,\nCroatian, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek and Latvian).<\/p>\n

List of books published: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Poetry:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Offspring of the East (1992, together with Boris Cavkoski)<\/li>\n
  2. The Fire of Letters (1994),<\/li>\n
  3. Bitten Nails (1998),<\/li>\n
  4. Nobel vs. Nobel (2001<\/li>\n
  5. Ideal Weight (selected poetry in Macedonian, edition \u201c130 books of Macedonian\nliterature,\u201d2008),<\/li>\n
  6. pH Neutral for Life and Death (2009)<\/li>\n
  7. Black on White (2016)<\/li>\n
  8. Boundary Situation (2021)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Novels:<\/p>\n

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    1. Hidden Camera (2004)<\/li>\n
    2. A Spare Life (2012)<\/li>\n
    3. Non-Oui (2016)<\/li>\n
    4. Personal Identification Number (2023)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Diary:<\/p>\n

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      1. \u00a0Beyond L. (2017)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Short stories collection:<\/p>\n

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        1. When I left Karl Liebknecht (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          Awarded with:<\/strong><\/p>\n

          (for poetry): <\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • The Macedonian award for poetry debut (1993),<\/li>\n
          • the German poetry prize \u00bbHubert Burda\u00ab (2009),<\/li>\n
          • the Romanian poetry prizes \u201cPoesis\u201d(2002) and \u201cTudor Arghezi\u201d (2012),<\/li>\n
          • the European Prize for Poetry \u201cPetru Krdu\u201d (2016)<\/li>\n
          • the Slovenian award \u201cThe Cup of Immortality\u201d (2020)<\/li>\n
          • the Macedonian-Albanian award \u201cNaim Frasheri\u201d(2020)<\/li>\n
          • the Macedonian award \u201cBrothers Miladinov\u201d (2021)<\/li>\n
          • shortlisted for the American Best Translated Book Award (2013)<\/li>\n
          • shortlisted for the German literary prize \u00bbBrucke Berlin\u00ab (2013)<\/li>\n
          • shortlisted for the Polish award \u201cEuropean Poet of Freedom\u201d (2016)<\/li>\n
          • shortlisted for the Slovenian prize MIRA, Slovenian PEN Center (2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            (for prose):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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            • the award of Writers\u2019 Association of Macedonia for the best prose book of the year, twice, for\nher novels Hidden Camera (2005) and A Spare Life (2013)<\/li>\n
            • the European Union Prize for Literature for her novel A Spare Life (2013)<\/li>\n
            • Special mention for European Cultural Heritage, for the cycle of five short stories from\nher book of short stories \u201cWhen I Left Karl Liebknecht\u201d (2018)<\/li>\n
            • nominated for the Swiss Award \"Specimen\" for best short story<\/li>\n
            • shortlisted for the International literary award Balkanika for her novel Grandma Non-Oui\n(2017)<\/li>\n
            • nominated for the Macedonian award Novel of the Year (2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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              Bibliography<\/h4><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>