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Lidija Dimkovska is a Macedonian poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Skopje and studied comparative literature at the University of Skopje. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught at the University of Bucharest and the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. She now lives in Ljubljana, working as a freelance writer and translator of Romanian and Slovenian literature.
Dimkovska is an editor at Blesok, the online Macedonian literary journal. She has won a number of literary prizes including:
the Hubert Burda literary prize for young East European poets
the Tudor Arghezi international poetry prize in Romania
the Macedonian Writers' Union award
the EU Prize for Literature
Her first book was the novel Skriena Kamera. It won the Macedonian Writers' Union award. It was also shortlisted for the Utrinski Vesnik award for the best novel of the year. Skriena Kamera has been translated into Slovenian, Slovakian, Polish and Bulgarian. Another novel Backup Life also won the Macedonian Writers' Union award, as well as the EU Prize for Literature.
Her book of poems pH Neutral History was translated into English by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid. It won the Best Translated Book Award from the online literary journal Three Percent.
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