Biography
Igor Angjelkov, born 1974, graduated at the Interdisciplinary Journalism Studies, and completed his master’s degree in Media and Communications at the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law – Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
He is actively engaged in thе periodicals with many critiques and reviews in the fields of literature, music and film. During the last twenty years he has actively participated in and created the literary scene in Macedonia through the publications in the popular edition PROaZa, which includes many authors from the new generation of Macedonian writers whose books have won many international awards like “Novel of the Year” as well as the prestigious “European Literature Award”. Member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia.
In 1996 his first self-published book was issued under the pseudonym Angel Gorski. His official debut as a writer was in 2006 with the short story collection “Krotki Prikazni” (2006), which was the first publication from a domestic author in the PROaZA edition, and whose stories were published in a few literary magazines in the Balkans.
Furthermore, his novels “Kraj-pat” (2010) and “Foto sinteza” (2013) had an excellent widespread reception and had several re-editions. In the “pandemic” 2020, his novel “Shrapnel” was published, and his new collection of short stories “Double Exposure“ in 2022. He is currently active with the new novel „Mina“ (2023). Angjelkov is known for his film commentary in the media as an author of the film radio show “REDRUM” on Kanal 103 ever since 1997 and of the film magazine “Filmoposlis” on TV Telma.
He is a member of the international film critic organization FIPRESCI, and from 2018-2022 he was the program selector of the International Film Festival „KineNova“ Skopje. His oeuvre includes three journalistic works in the field of film art: “Film.mkd”, which won the State Publication Award “Mito Hadjivasilev – Jasmin” in 2016, and his latest work “Filmski Grad” (2018) and his latest work „Filmotopia“ (2022).
List of books published:
Krotki prikazni (ILI-ILI, 2006), short stories
Kraj-Pat (ILI-ILI, 2010), novel
Photo synthesis (ILI-ILI, 2013), novel
Film.mkd (ILI-ILI, 2015), film essays
Filmski grad (ILI-ILI, 2018), film essays
Shrapnel (ILI-ILI, 2020), novel
Filmotopia (ILI-ILI, 2022), film essays
Double exposure (ILI-ILI, 2022), short stories
Mina (ILI-ILI, 2023), novel
Awarded with:
“Film.mkd” (2015), State Publication Award “Mito Hadjivasilev – Jasmin”
“Foto sinteza” (2013) and “Shrapnel” (2020), finalists of “Racin award”
