Lidija Dimkovska

Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971, Skopje, Macedonia) has published seven books of poetry, three novels, one American diary, and one short-story collection translated into fifteen languages. Her novels Hidden Camera (2004) and A Spare Life (2012) received the award of the Writers’ Union of Macedonia for the best prose book of the year. A Spare Life also received the European Union Prize for Literature (2013) and was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2017. Her last poetry collection, Boundary Situation, received the “Brothers Miladinov” award for the best Macedonian poetry book (2021).

Two Poems from North Macedonia

September 2022
Lidija Dimkovska

A Curse May you be eaten by Paradise! was Father Kleopa’s curse on me. Steep was the ground from his skete to the foot of the hill where I stood. The curses our people use have always been...
When I Left “Karl Liebknecht” (an excerpt)

Autumn 2020
Lidija Dimkovska

In the Karl Liebknecht House in Leipzig, Germany, thirty people of various nationalities are seated around an improvised table on the stage in the Events Hall, interpreters behind them, some with...
Grandma, Non-Oui (an excerpt)

May 8, 2018 | Lidija Dimkovska

Non-Oui is a biographical novel that tells the story of a woman from Split, Croatia. In her youth, Grandma Nedjeljka, or Non-Oui, as she was called (a literal French translation of the syllables...
Two Poems

November 2016
Lidija Dimkovska

Photo: Train Photos/Flickr A Swap At the market bus stopI’m waiting with a man in ragged clothes,unshaven, his hair greasy,swinging his hand holding a big plastic bagwith “The Big Shopper” written o...
A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska

November 2016
Lidija Dimkovska

San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2016. 532 pages. Zlata, a Siamese twin conjoined at the head to her sister, Srebra, is the unlikely protagonist of Macedonian writer Lidija Dimkovska’s remarkable novel...
pH Neutral History by Lidija Dimkovska

July 2013
Lidija Dimkovska

Ljubica Arsovska & Peggy Reid, tr. Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon. 2012. ISBN 9781556593758 The latest selection of poetry in English of the prominent Macedonian poet Lidija Dimkovska (b...