Poets

Vladimir Martinovski (1974) is a poet, short story writer, essayist, theorist, literary translator, musician. He works as a full professor, teaching in the subject Comparative Poetics at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”, University “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje. He received his PhD from the University of Paris III ‐ Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is author of 10 books of poetry: Sea Moon (2003), Hidden Poems (2005), Water and earth and fire and air (2006), Quartets for reading, watching, singing and listening (2010), Hurry up and Wait (2011), Before and after the Dance (2012), Real Water (2014), Inner Mountains (2016), Dream and Awake Poems (2017) and 101 Sonnets from a strange Spring (2020) and Closkless Hours (2025). He has published three books of haibuns: Echo of Waves (2009), Cat in the Fog (2016) and Starless Sky (2016). He has published a book of short stories Zoostories (2019), as well as 3 collections of poems for children: Dum spiro spero (2019), Chess with Bach (2020) and A Choral in the Backyard (2021).  He also authored 10 books of literary theory and essays, and he edited 9 antologies. He is recipient of 6 distinguished literary awards. His poetry has been published in twenty languages. As a musician, he participated in albums of Orchestra “Pece Atanasovski”, “Kaldrma”, “Baklava”. He is also active as a visual artist.