Lidija Dimkovska (

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North M ...

: , born 1971) is a

poet, novelist and translator. She was born in

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and studied comparative literature at the

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. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught

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and

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at the University of Bucharest and world literature at the

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. She now lives in

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, working as a freelance writer and translator of Romanian and Slovenian literature. Dimkovska is an editor at ''

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'', the online Macedonian literary journal. She has won a number of literary prizes including: *the Hubert Burda literary prize for young East European poets (2009) *the Tudor Arghezi international poetry prize in

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(2012) *the Macedonian Writers' Union award (2004 and 2012) *the

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(2013) *the European Prize for Poetry Petru Krdu (2016) Her first novel was ''Skrivena Kamera'' (Macedonian: '','' English: ''Hidden Camera'', 2004). It won the Macedonian Writers' Union award and was shortlisted for the

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award for best novel of the year. ''Skrivena Kamera'' has been translated into Slovenian, Slovakian,

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, and

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. Her second novel ''A Spare Life'' (Macedonian: ', ''Reserven zhivot'', trans.

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, 2012) also won the Macedonian Writers' Union award, as well as the

. Other books of hers include: * ''Grandma Non-Oui'' (2016) * ''When We Left "Karl Liebknecht"'', a short story collection (2019) 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 ''

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''. Her other poetry collections include: * ''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

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