Poets

Nikolina Andova Shopova (Skopje, 1978) is a Macedonian poet and nov- elist. She is the author of the poetry collections The Entrance Is on the Other Side (2013), Connect the Dots (2014), and In the House (2026).

Her debut collection, The Entrance Is on the Other Side, published by Templum, received the prestigious Bridges of Struga Award, presented by UNESCO and the Struga Poetry Evenings for the best debut poetry book by a young Macedonian author.

In 2018, she published her first novel, Someone Was Here, which won the Novel of the Year Award presented by the Slavko Janevski Foundation. The novel has been translated into Serbian and English. Her second novel, Estom, was published by Ili-Ili in 2022.

Andova Shopova is also the author of the children’s books The Mole Zvezdan (2020) and The Smallest Giant, Dwarfy, and the Biggest Dwarf, Gianto (2024), which received the First Prize for Best Children’s Book Between Two Book Fairs by the Macedonian Association of Publishers in 2025.