Poets

Iva Damjanovski, born on 09.01.1996 in Skopje, Macedonia. She is currently a student at the University of Trento, Italy in a Master’s of Musicology Program (inter-university course with Frree University of Bolzano) as well as the “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia in a Master’s of Piano Performance and Composition Program, class of prof. Marija Gjosevska. 

Her first poetry book “Тие” was published by “Blesok Publishing “and the book was the winner of the “Igor Isakovski” award for best debut poetry book by a young author (2017). In 2019 the second and broadened edition was published by PNV Publications. In 2020 her second poetry book “Двоумење” was published by the same publisher and was awarded the prestigious national award “Brothers Miladinov” for best poetry book of the year at the Struga Poetry Evenings. In 2022 she was  laureate in the “Антево Слово” and has won the special prize in the “Castello di Duino” international poetry competitions for best unpublished poem. She is part of the “Versopolis” platform since 2021 and her poetry has been translated in Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, English, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Romanian and Bengali. In 2022 she published her third multilingual poetry book “Тријажа”. Her poetry has been presented at the International Cork Poetry Festival and has been published in many international poetry anthologies and literary magazines. She is also part of the Creative Europe international project Urban Travel Machines which is to be presented at the Literary Festival in Vienna this year.