Vladimir Martinovski

Vladimir Martinovski – Владимир Мартиновски (1974) is poet, prose writer, essay writer, literary critic and translator. He works as a Professor, teaching the subject of Comparative Poetics at the Department of General and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski”, Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. He completed his PhD at University Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle at 2007. He was the President of the Association of Comparative Literature of Macedonia (2009-2013). He is member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Furthermore, he is a member of the International  Comparative Literature Association and Executive Board member of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies. He is member of Macedonian Writers Association and Vice-President of the Macedonian PEN Centre. 

Bibliography (books):

From an Image to a Poem: Intersections Between Macedonian Contemporary Poetry and the Fine Arts (a study, 2003); Sea Moon (haiku and tanka, 2003); Hidden Poems (haiku, 2005); And Water and Earth and Fire and Air (haiku, 2006); Comparative Triptychs (studies and essays, 2007); Les Musées Imaginaires, (a study, 2009); The Echo of the Waves (haibuns, 2009); Paintings for Reading – Aspects of Ekphrastic Poetry (a study, 2009); Quartets  (poetry, 2010); Comparative Diptychs (studies and essays, 2011); Hurry up and Wait! (prose poems, 2011); A Portrait of a Poet with an Umbrella (selected poetry, 2011); Reverse Profile (selected poetry, 2011); Across Europe (short stories, together with Petra Hulova, Sudabe Mohavez and Kristin Dimitrova, 2012); Before and after the Dance (poetry, 2012); Zoon Poetikon – Aspects of Macedonian Contemporary Poetry (studies and essays, 2013); Real Water (poetry, 2014), Narro ergo sum (studies and essays, 2015), Cat in mist (haibuns, 2016), Inner Mountains (poetry, 2016), Starless Sky (haibuns, 2016), Dream and Awake Poems (poetry, 2017), Poetic (Re)Visions (studies and essays, 2018), Dum spiro spero (poetry for children, 2019), 101 Sonnet from one strange Spring (poetry, 2020), Far away, so close (essays, 2020) and Chess with Bach (poetry for children, 2020).

He has been an (co)editor of the following books: Ut pictura poesis – Poetry in Dialogue with the Fine Arts, Thematic Selection of Macedonian Poetry (together with Nuhi Vinca 2006); Metamorphoses and Metatexts (together with Vesna Tomovska 2008); When the Butterfly Becomes a Poem (together with Lidija Kapushevska – Drakulevska, 2010); Odysseys about the Odyssey (together with Vesna Tomovska, 2010); New Macedonian Haiku Wavе (anthology, 2011), Lyrical Dodecameron (anthology 2012), Literary Dislocations (together with Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser, 2012), Zen Stories (anthology, 2012); All Faces of Laughter (together with Vesna Tomovska, 2013) and Poetry of Ancient Japan (anthology, 2013).

He is recipient of the following literary awards: First Prize at the Short Story Competition of “Nova Makedonija” (2009); Brother’s Miladinovci Award (awarded by the International Festival Struga Poetry Evenings, 2010); Dimitar Mitrev Award for literary criticism (awarded by Macedonian Writers Association, 2013) and Knight of the written word Prize (2014), Ante’s Coin (2020), The Lyre of Orpheus (2020).