Biography
Elizabeta Bakovska (Bitola, 1969). She received her BA and MA from the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” in Skopje, from the English Language and Literature Department. She holds Ph.D. in gender studies from Euro-Balkan Institute. She was the editor-in-chief of Blesok, an electronic magazine for culture and literaturewww.blesok.mkShe translates, writes poetry and prose, as well as literary theory and criticism. Her poetry, fiction and literary criticism have been translated and published in а number of languages.
List of books published: (bibliography):
- The Hagiography of Our Love (poetry) /(Masedonia Prima, 2003)
- Four Seasons: Short Stories about Essential Issues / (Blesok, 2004)
- Conditions of Body and Mind after You Turn Thirty (poetry) / (Blesok, 2005)
- On the Way to Damascus (novel)/(Slovo, 2006)
- The Barbarians still Write Poetry (poetry)/ (Independent edition 2015)
- A Room of One’s Own, a Ghetto of One’s Own: Women’s Writing in Contemporary Macedonian Prose (literary theory/criticism) / (Independent edition, 2016); (second edition, 2023)
- Thirteen Reviews about Literary and Similar Works (literary criticism) / (Blesok, 2018)
- The Last Sips: Short Stories about Essential Issues, Second Time (short stories) / (Independent edition, 2018)
- The Founders of Contemporary Macedonian Art: Children’s Encyclopedia / (Efektiva, 2019)
- Во главата слушам песна, раскази (Или-или, 2020)
- I Hear a Song in My Head (short stories) / (Ili-Ili, 2020)
- The Mother and the Different Stories (short stories for children) / (Independent edition, 2020)
- The Kiss of the Spring(fairy tale) / (Ars Lamina, 2022)
- All the Aches Became Mine (poetry) / (Independent edition, 2022)
- Autobiography of Reading and Other Thoughts about Culture(literary criticism and essays) / (Independent edition, 2023)
Awarded with:
- First award at “Nova Makedonija” short story annual competition (2010)
- First award at the short story competition “Skopje and the 1963 Disastrous Earthquake” (2016)
- One of the four awarded stories for children at the competition “Modern Fairy Tales from Macedonia” (2020)
- “Ante’s Gold Coin” award for unpublished poetry collection at the International Poetry and Cultural Competition “Ante Popovski – Ante’s Pen” (2021)
- Most Creative Book Award of the Macedonian Association of Publishers for the book I Write a Short Story in My Head (2022) I Write a Short Story in My Head
