Meto Jovanovski ( mk, Мето Јовановски; 18 October 1928 – 23 December 2016) was a Macedonian writer from the village of

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The Balkan Post-Modern Writers: Between Storytellers Tradition and Western Patterns
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Biography

He attended the teacher's college in

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and taught school for a few years before moving into the publishing industry. His first short stories were published in 1951, and his first short story collection appeared in 1956.The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945
p. 253-54 (2003) He worked as an editor of the literary magazines "

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" and "Horizon". He is a former head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of North Macedonia.Balkan babel: the disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the fall of Milošević
p. 191 (2002)

Bibliography

* Short Stories Collections: ** „Јадреш“, 1956 ** „Мени на мојата месечина“, 1959 ** „Првите човекови умирања“, 1971 ** „Патот до осамата“, 1978 ** „Крстопат кон спокојот“, 1987 ** „Љубовта на Грифонот“, 2005. * Novels: ** „Хајка на пеперутки“, 1957 ** „Слана во цутот на бадемите“, 1965 ** „Земја и тегоба“, 1968 ** „Сведоци“, 1970 ** „Будалетинки“, 1973 ** „Орловата долина“, 1979 ** „Крлежи“, 1984 и ** „Балканска книга на умрените или Ослободување преку зборување“, 1992. * Books for Children ** „Љуман Арамијата“, 1954 и ** „Војвода над војводите“, 1980. Some of his works have been translated into English, including the novel ''Budaletinki'' (Будалетинки, or Simpletons in English) (1973) (published in English as ''Cousins''), and ''Faceless Men, and Other Macedonian Stories'' (1992).Segel, Harold B
The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945
p. 301-03 (2008)Thomas, Phil (3 May 1987
Yugoslavian 'Cousins' doesn't translate well (book review)
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copy)Faceless men & other Macedonian stories
(1992) (introductory material includes biographical material including birthdate)

References

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