Poets

Mitko Gogov

Macedonia

Biography

 
Mitko Gogov was born on November 11, 1983, in Skopje, North Macedonia. He writes poetry, short stories, essays, and journalistic articles. He also writes haiku, senryu, and renga, which he publishes on the microblogging network, Twitter. His works have been translated and published in numerous anthologies, poetry books, and art and literature magazines in India, Pakistan, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Egypt, the USA, Argentina, Russia, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Bulgaria…

He has published the following poetry books: “Ice Water” (BKC, Serbia, 2011), “Antolog” (2014), “Hidden Letter” (Antolog, 2019), “Ruler. Numbers” (Makavej, 2021), and “Lord of Ba(c)teria” (Makavej, 2024). He is the recipient of several awards and recognitions, including: “Enhalon” awarded by the Struga Poetry Evenings; “Angelo La Vecchia” award in Sicily, Italy; “Poetic Literary Sparks” awards; “Poetry Slam” in Prilep; “Struga Waves” in Struga, and many others.

He is the president of the association for cultural development and protection of cultural heritage, “Context – Strumica”; Organizer of the global poetry event, “100 Thousand Poets for Change” in North Macedonia; Representative of the World Union of Poets and the School of Poetry – Macedonian Delegation; One of the founders of the awards “Antevo slovo” and “Antevo pero”; Editor of the portal Strumica Online and the electronic magazine for literature, art, and culture, Reper.

Additionally, he is a conceptual artist with several exhibitions, installations, performances, set designs, and multimedia projects in Norway, France, Italy, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria… He organizes cultural and artistic events and collaborates with youth, art, film, and theater festivals. He is a blogger, always open to communication.

 
 
 

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