Poets

Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski

Macedonia

Biography

Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born on 18 March 1959 in the village Velestovo, Ohrid area. He graduated at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Philology of University – Skopje. He is a member of the Macedonian PEN Centre. He is the founder and director of the Velestovo Poetry Night Festival, and he was also the President of the Board of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival.

Poetry collections:

Engravings, 1979, Project, 1982, Cold Urge, 1985, The Last Manuscripts, 1988, Byway, 1991, Subjects and Arguments, 1994, Forms of passion, 1998, Forms of passion, bibliographic edition with illustrations by Sergej Andreevski and Dick Roberts, 1999 Ohrid, Forms of passion, (arranged by Sasho Dimoski) е-format, 1999, Dark Place, 1999, Word Measurer, 2007 Skopje, Haiku on Postcards, 2015 and The Triptych of Language, 2015, Reports of the Lynx, 2016, Milky Way, 2018, and Language and Bread, 2019.

Books of Essays

Amedeo Modigliani, Gjurgja, 2000, Sea Bottle, Velestovo Poetry Night, 2004, Sea Bottle, Volume Two, Velestovo Poetry Night, 2011 and A Road by the Road, PNV Publishing, 2021.

He has also written several books for children.

His complete poetry was published in the book Poetry/Weavings in 2014. His poems and poetic cycles have been translated into over thirty languages and are included in all the anthologies of the Macedonian poetry and around the world. He has won the most significant poetry awards in Macedonia and several international awards.