Biography
Ande Jankov was born in 1988. He is a graduate economist from Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje.
His debut novel, A Summer on Cretereceived the award Romanijada, awarded by the publishing house ''Kultura'' for Best Debut Novel by an emerging author. Vienna Gamehe has sat his sights on expanding the crime and thriller genres on the Macedonian market, by introducing Viktor Nikolov, his detective protagonist in an ongoing series of novels: A Safe Risk, ''А Safe Risk'' (2021), and ''Only God Forgives'' (2022). His fifth novel ‘‘Kobayashi Maru‘‘ Only God Forgivesis due to be published in 2024 by Antolog Publishing House, as are all of his other novels. He also created, the literary podcast ''Literary conversations'', whereas he conducts interviews with the newest darlings of Macedonian genre literature. The podcast has four seasons and sixty episodes, with more than fifty guests.
He is considered the leading authority on crime-fiction in Macedonia, because of his efforts of expanding the crime and thriller-genre borders in contemporary Macedonian literature.
