Poets

Violeta Tančeva-Zlateva (25.04.1968, Borievo, Strumica) has graduated in Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. She writes poetry, short stories, novels and essays. She has been a Member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association since 2000, and also the Proofreaders’ Association of Macedonia. She works as a proofreader and editor at “TRI” Publishing Center, Skopje.

She has published the following prose books: short stories A book of the Dream, 1992; novel Coming back, 1993; stories On my way to Borievo, 1999; Colourful letters, 2008 (an epistolary novel for children),  Stories from the last century, 2022, novel Bella Sama, 2023; and the books of poetry: My Picasso, 2007 bilingual edition in Macedonian and English (and a Macedonian – Serbian edition in 2008, Zadužbina “Petar Kočić” – Banja Luka – Belgrade); Prisoners of silence, 2010; Fiery, 2011; Our story, 2013; A summerless year, 2015; The Road, 2018; On the edge of the world, 2021; Time goes by, 2021; Deaf Time, 2023. 

She has won the “Miladinov Brothers” Award presented by Struga Poetry Evenings in 2015, the “Aco Shopov” Award presented by the Macedonian Writers’ Association in 2018, and in 2022 she won the “Antev Zlatnik” Award presented by the International Poetic and Cultural Event “Ante Popovski – Antevo Pero” for her poetry book Deaf Time. Her poems are represented in several selections, panoramas and anthologies. Also, her poems and short stories have been translated and published in several magazines in Serbian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, English, Bulgarian, Albanian, Romanian, Russian, Тurkish, German languages.