Lidija Dimkovska

Lidija Dimkovska (Macedonian: Лидија Димковска, born 1971) is a Macedonian poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Skopje and studied comparative literature at the University of Skopje. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught Macedonian language and literature at the University of Bucharest and world literature at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. She now lives in Ljubljana, working as a freelance writer and translator of Romanian and Slovenian literature.[1]

Portrait of Lidija Dimkovska

Dimkovska is an editor at Blesok, the online Macedonian literary journal. She has won a number of literary prizes including:[1]

Her first novel was Skrivena Kamera (Macedonian: Скривена камера, English: Hidden Camera, 2004). It won the Macedonian Writers' Union award and was shortlisted for the Utrinski Vesnik award for best novel of the year. Skrivena Kamera has been translated into Slovenian, Slovakian, Polish, Bulgarian, and Albanian. Her second novel A Spare Life (Macedonian: Резервен живот, Reserven zhivot, trans. Christina Kramer, 2012) also won the Macedonian Writers' Union award, as well as the EU Prize for Literature.[1][3][4] Other books of hers include:

  • Grandma Non-Oui (2016)[2]
  • When We Left "Karl Liebknecht", a short story collection (2019)[5]

Her book of poems pH Neutral History (2012) was translated into English by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid and was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award by the online literary journal Three Percent.[1] Her other poetry collections include:[6]

  • The Offspring of the East (1992)
  • The Fire of Letters (1994)
  • Bitten Nails (1998)
  • Nobel vs. Nobel (2001)
  • Do Not Awaken With Hammers (2006), translated by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid

References
  1. "Profile". Archived from the original on 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
  2. "Lidija Dimkovska". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  3. "A Spare Life". Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  4. "Не стивнуваат позитивните критики во САД за „Резервен живот" на Лидија Димковска". Сител Телевизија (in Macedonian). Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  5. "When I Left "Karl Liebknecht" (an excerpt), by Lidija Dimkovska". World Literature Today. 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  6. "Toronto Slavic Quarterly: Lidija Dimkovska's DO NOT AWAKEN THEM WITH HAMMERS". sites.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-29.


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