A collection of poetry in translation from Lidija Dimkovska, a poet and
novelist from North Macedonia living in Slovenia. Born in 1971, Lidija
writes in Macedonian. She has published six books of poetry, three
novels, one American diary and one collection of short stories which
have been awarded and translated into 15 languages (English, German,
Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, French,
Croatian, Italian, Albanian, Bulgarian and Latvian). She has
participated at numerous international literary festivals (Princeton
Poetry Festival, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Vilnius,
Manchester, Chicago, Zagreb, Vilenica, Medana, Struga, Leipzig, Lido
Adriano, Manchester, Kazan, Dresden, Taipei, Cork, Warsaw, Berlin, etc.)
and was a writer-in-residence in London, Berlin, Iowa, Vienna, Graz,
Salzburg, Krems, Tirana, and Split.
"Exemplary and haunting, Lidija Dimkovska, who is one of the leading
writers of south-east Europe, writes like no-one else. In this Selected
Poems (from both of her last books), impeccably translated, we hear the
gritty edge to her intelligent compassion, the way she interweaves
fantasy and bitter experience, and how her searching poetic gaze hunts
down difficult truths. Every one of these poems is a challenge we should
rise to." - Fiona Sampson
"These poems display courage and resilience, they are honest and
uncompromising, characteristics that have always been present in the
poetry of Lidija Dimkovska." - Goce Smilevski, writer and literary
researcher at the Institute of Macedonian Literature, Skopje.
