Poets

Andrej Medić Lazarevski

North Macedonia

Biography

Andrej Medić Lazarevski (2001, Skopje) is a poet, editor, and organizer of cultural events and festivals. He graduated from the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and is currently studying at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” at UKIM in Skopje. He is the author of the poetry collections Conversations with Her (2021, Data Pesnopoj) and Prayer Discourses (2022, 2023 – 2nd revised and expanded edition, PNV Publishing).He is the founder of the Association for the Affirmation of Youth Culture “CULTURE BETA,” the organizer of the literary events “Poetic Episode” and “Klinci,” the festival coordinator of the Philosophical Film Festival, a member of the executive board of the Philosophical Society of Macedonia, a board member of the Skopje Poetry Festival, and part of the team of the café-bookstore “Bukva” in Skopje. He has participated in various poetry readings and festivals (Stih u regiji, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Night in Velestovo, Skopje Poetry Festival, ArtArea…). His poems have been published in domestic periodicals and translated into Serbian for the literary magazines Bludni Stih and Rukopisi, into Croatian for the magazine Poetry of the Croatian Writers’ Association, and into English for Selection from A New Birth of the Word (an Anthology of Macedonian Young Poetry), published by Struga Poetry Evenings. His poems are included in the anthologies Macedonian Love Lyrics (ed. Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska and Ivan Antonovski, Matica Makedonska, 2024), New Birth of the Word: Anthology of Young Macedonian Poetry (ed. Vesna Mojsova-Chepishevska and Ivan Antonovski, PNV Publishing, 2023), and Music, Now and Yet (ed. Vladimir Martinovski, Struga Poetry Evenings, 2022).