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Dimkovska was born in Skopje, writes in Macedonian and lives in Slovenia. Her novel sets the sisters’ coming of age alongside the dissolution of an old political order. Choose Bužarovska’s My Husband for an unsparing view of marriage, or Pirey for rural wartime experience. Smilevski gives voice to Freud’s sister and women pushed to history’s margins. Starova, writing in Albanian and Macedonian, represents shared regional heritage through a family library.
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Conjoined twin sisters grow up in Yugoslavia and seek the possibility of independent lives.
Original title: Резервен живот
Two Lines Press · 2016
Translated by Christina E. Kramer
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Female narrators expose marital disappointment, hypocrisy and everyday inequality.
Original title: Мојот маж
A novel gives voice to Adolfina Freud, imagining a woman’s life in her famous brother’s shadow.
Original title: Сестрата на Зигмунд Фројд
A family library helps tell a story of displacement and survival under successive Balkan regimes.
Original title: Татковите книги
War, Macedonia’s division and village life emerge through the experiences of Ion and Velika.
Original title: Пиреј
Poetry connects displacement with embodiment and a critical view of contemporary life.
Original title: Не будете ги со чекани
Stories explore the desire to leave, the disappointments of migration and tensions concealed within family relationships.
A conversation between grandmother and granddaughter moves between Croatia and Sicily, uncovering love, war and migration.
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