Poets

Violeta Tancheva-Zlateva (1968) graduated Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. She writes poetry, short stories and essays and has published the following prose books: A book of the Dream, 1992; Coming back, 1993; On my way to Borievo, 1999; Colourful letters, 2008 (an epistolary novel for children), Stories from last century, 2022;  as well as the following poetry books: My Picasso, 2007 bilingual edition in Macedonian and English (and a Macedonian – Serbian edition in 2008, Zadužbina “Petar Kočić’’– Banja Luka – Belgrade); Prisoners of silence, 2010; Fiery, 2011; Our story, 2013; A summerless year, 2015; The Road, 2018; On the edge of the world, 2021; Time goes by, 2021; Deaf Times, 2023. 

She has won four awards in the anonymous competition for short story “Andrić’s Days of Culture” in Travnik, first award for prose in 1991 at the anonymous competition organized by “Gjurgja” Publishing House, the “Miladinov Brothers” Award presented by Struga Poetry Evenings for best poetry book in 2015, and the “Aco Shopov” Award presented by the Macedonian Writers’ Association in 2018.