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Venko Andonovski (born 1964) is a Macedonian writer (novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet), essayist, critic and literary theorist.


Biography

Venko Andonovski graduated from the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. He holds a PhD in Philology and works as a professor at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. Andonovski is a member of the PEN center. In 1990 he became a member of the Writers' Association of Macedonia.


Personal life

Venko went to High school ''Orce Nikolov'' in Skopje together with journalist Nikola Mladenov founder of
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newspaper. In his youth, he started writing poems, since he was a young child . His late father was Veroljub Andonovski, the
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journalist. He is currently married to Danka and lives in
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. Venko has six children:
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, David, Vidan and Grigorij. His brother ''Vedran Andonovski'' is a journalist and works for
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Creativity

*Poetry **The gentle heart of the Barbarian *Short stories **Quarter of liricharite **Frescoes and grotesques *Novels **Alphabet for the disobedient **Navel of the World **Witch **Daughter of the mathematician / 33.33 *Dramas **Doomsday machine **Riot in a retirement home **Slavic Chest **Black dolls **Candide in Wonderland **Cunegonde in Carlaland **Border **Saint of Darkness **Lead pillow *Literary criticism **Matoshe's bells **The texts processes **Structure of the Macedonian realistic novel **Decryption


Screenwriting

* Infernal Machine, TV Movie (1995) * Vo svetot na bajkite, TV Series (1995) * Upside Down (2007) (together with Igor Ivanov Izi) * Prespav, TV Series (2016)


Religion

In a 2008 interview for religious online portal Premin, On journalist question: Do you when creating your work have an ongoing "dialogue" with God in terms of person to a person or the dialogue goes down to silently standing before God and translating the experience (on a stand Absolute) in to this word? Venko answered:
I Always remember how it was when writing the "Navel of the World." Three and a half years I have sketched and collected material. I stored it up a lot, but everything was scattered in notebooks and computer files. That year, sometime in September, entirely without a plan, someone started sorting those scattered files. Like it was creating a mosaic. It woke me up at three, four o'clock in the morning and I was getting to work. I've never gotten up without an alarm clock. Finally, I decided to go in solitude. I went to
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. Before I moved in the
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that I've rented I lit a candle in the Church "Virgin Mary". Then, in the next twelve days, I lost sense of day and night. I woke up when I had to write down what someone obviously wanted me to. It was like someone dictated it to me. How I enjoyed it , I of course, write it down, but with great anxiety and thought. It was not just a monologue. I asked a question, which then I had to answer it. The novel was finished and I returned two days earlier to
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(than planned). I have enough years of experience to know that I did not write the novel myself, or just myself. Call it as you want - but I call it a blessing. Lord (I am a believer) You at least held my hand, if I did not deserved more - my mind and heart, for example. In this I was convinced, though I always speak about this experience with anxiety, from fear that people who do not believe in anything except themselves - will make fun of me. No great art comes without contact with the One and Indivisible, Almighty and Sublime. I do not only think it but also feel it the same.


Awards

* (2006) award name: ''Balkanika'' for Navel of the World * (2008) award name: Order of the Holy Macedonian Cross for: Contribution, support and promotion of the Macedonian national, cultural and spiritual identity, awarded by:
Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archbishopric The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Ohrid (MOC-AO; mk, Македонска православна црква – Охридска архиепископија), or simply the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) or the Archdiocese o ...
* (2013) award name: ''Stale Popov'' for Doter of the mathematician * (2014) award name: ''Jugra'' for Navel of the WorldВенко Андоновски добитник на „Југра“
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See also

*
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andonovski, Venko People from Kumanovo 1964 births Living people Macedonian writers