Poets

Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska

Macedonia

Biography

Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska (1979, Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia) is a poetess, author, scientist, editor in chief of two literary magazines in North Macedonia, literary critic, doctor of pedagogy, university professor at the University “Kliment Ohridski” Bitola (Faculty of Education), a member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association; Macedonian Science Society – Bitola; Slavic Academy for Literature and Art in Varna – Bulgaria, and Bitola Literary Circle. She was president of the Macedonian Science Society Editorial Council and now – a head of the Linguistics and Literature Department at the Macedonian Science Society – Bitola. She has published two books of stories, 9 poetry books, one book for children, a book of literary criticism in Macedonian and 3 academic and scientific books that are part of the curriculum at the university where she works, and over 100 scientific articles. She has also 6 poetry books published in English, Italian, Arabic and Romanian language in India, United Arab Emirates, Italy, and Romania. She has also published her translations from English into Macedonian and vice versa in North Macedonia, Italy and Netherland (7 poetry books and many articles). She has won several important awards for literature: “Krste Chachanski (2018); “Karamanov” for “Electronic Blood” (2019); Macedonian Literary Avant-garde for “House of Contrasts” (2020); “Abduvali Qutbiddin” (2020, Uzbekistan); Premio Mondiale “Tulliola- Renato Filippelli” in Italy for “Electronic Blood” (2021); Award of excellence “City of Galateo – Antonio De Ferrariis” (Italy); Award for Literary Criticism in 2022, Poetry Award “Dritero Agioli” (Albania, 2023); Poetry Award “Mihai Eminescu”, a Golden Medal and a recognition as ambassador of culture in Romania by the Mihai Eminescu Academy (2023) and “Aco Shopov” for poetry (the most important national poetry prize by Macedonian Writers’ Association in 2021). Her poetry have been translated and published into more than 40 world languages. 

Books:

а) Poetry:

  • “A Word about the Word“ (Clatko Zhoglev and Gordana Stojanoska, co-authors, Skopje: Matica, 2014);
  • “Poem about the Margins” (GordanaStojanoska co-author, Bitola: Macedonian Science Society, 2015);
  • “Black Dot” (Bitola: Bitola’s Literary Circle, 2017);
  • “Footprints” (Bitola: Macedonian Science Society, 2017);
  • “Three“ (Skopje: Sovremenost, 2019);
  • “House of Contrasts” (Skopje: Matica, 2019);
  • “Electronic Blood” in Macedonian (Radovish: Center for Culture “Aco Karamanov”, 2019) 
  • “Electronic Blood” in Arabic (United Arab Emirates: Ravashen Publishing, 2021)
  • “Electronic Blood” in English (India: Cyberwit, 2021)
  • “Math Poetry” (Skopje: Center for Culture and Cultural Studies, 2020)
  •  “Dandelion Cadence” (co-author, Calcuta: Eric Publishing, 2021)
  • “Walking on an Aerial Line”  (Skopje: Mi-An, 2021)
  • “Soul full of Sky – Il Cielo nell’Anima” (transl. into English Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska, transl. into Italian Caludia Piccinno, Italy, Cuscino di Stelle, 2022,
  • “Omuletiii de Hartie si Dumnezeu” („Little Paper Men and God“, transl. into Romanian Constantin Severin, Bukuresht: Eikon, 2023. 

б) Prose:

  • “Coffee, Tea and a Red Sky” (Struga: Bran, 2019)
  • Decontruction of the Void” (Skopje: Center for Culture and Cultural Studies, 2022)
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в) Literary Criticism: 

  • „Literary Criticism“ (Битола: Друштво на писатели „Битолски книжевен круг“, 2022)
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в) Other Works:

  • “Traffic Poems“ (Vesna Mundishevska-Veljanovska co-author, Skopje: Републички совет за безбедност на сообраќајот на патиштата, 2019);
  • “Leadership in Education“ (prof. d-r Suzana mIovska-Spaseva and prof. d-r Nasir Selimi, Amsterdam: Faculty of Management in Education, and Skopje: Faculty of Philosophy, 2013);
  • “Leadership in Education“ (a course book) (prof. d-r Suzana mIovska-Spaseva, Amsterdam: Faculty of Management in Education, and Skopje: Faculty of Philosophy, 2013);
  • “Critical Literacy” (academic book, Bitola: University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Education – Bitola, 2019).

Literary Translations:

  • Books:
  • Маи Ван Фан и Раед Анис Ал-Јиши. (2020). Новогодишно бањање. Зачуден барут. (Уред. Борче Панов), Прев. Даниела Андоновска-Трајковска, Центар за култура „Ацо Караманов“ – Радовиш,
  • „Петто календарско време: Антологија на Караманови средби“ (2020). (Уред. Борче Панов, прев. од англ. на мак. Даниела Андоновска-Трајковска), Центар за култура „Ацо Караманов“ – Радовиш
  • Борче Панов. Подземно јаболко/ Borce Panov. Underground Apple. (превод од македонски на англиски јазик) објавена во 2021 година во Холандија од Демер Прес и двојазично на македонски и англиски – објавена од Матица во 2022 година.
  • Превод на своја поезија (Books: Math Poetry, Electronic Blood (објавена од Cyberwit) , House of Contrasts),
  • Клаудија Пичино. (2021). Отвор од светлина во катедралата. (Уред. и превод: Борче Панов и Даниела Андоновска-Трајковска), Центар за култура „Ацо Караманов“ – Радовиш.
  • Borche Panov: Sculpture of Breathing, (превод од македонски на англиски јазик: Даниела Андоновска-Трајковска, превод од англиски на италијански: Клаудија Пичино, Кускина ди Стеле, Италија, 2022).