Meto Jovanovski (writer)

Meto Jovanovski
Occupation	Author

Meto Jovanovski (born October 18, 1928) (Macedonian: Мето Јовановски) is a Macedonian writer from the village of Brajčino in the Republic of Macedonia.^[1][2]

Biography

He attended the teacher's college in Skopje and taught school for a few years before moving into the publishing industry. His first short stories were published in 1951, and his first short story collection appeared in 1956.^[3]

He has also starred in the Macedonian movies : Ilinden parts 1,2,3 and 4 as Chafche, a nickname. He plays as a Macedonian voivoda, during the Ottoman era.

He is a former head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia.^[4]

Bibliography

• Short Stories Collections:
  • „Јадреш“, 1956
  • „Мени на мојата месечина“, 1959
  • „Првите човекови умирања“, 1971
  • „Патот до осамата“, 1978
  • „Крстопат кон спокојот“, 1987
  • „Љубовта на Грифонот“, 2005.
• Novels:
  • „Хајка на пеперутки“, 1957
  • „Слана во цутот на бадемите“, 1965
  • „Земја и тегоба“, 1968
  • „Сведоци“, 1970
  • „Будалетинки“, 1973
  • „Орловата долина“, 1979
  • „Крлежи“, 1984 и
  • „Балканска книга на умрените или Ослободување преку зборување“, 1992.
• Books for Children
  • „Љуман Арамијата“, 1954 и
  • „Војвода над војводите“, 1980.

Some of his works have been translated into English, including the novel Budaletinki (Будалетинки, or Simpletons in English) (1973) (published in English as Cousins), and Faceless Men, and Other Macedonian Stories (1992).^[5][6][7]

References

1. pen.org.mk
2. Alexe, Maria. The Balkan Post-Modern Writers: Between Storytellers Tradition and Western Patterns (2011 manuscript), Bucharest National University of Arts website
3. The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945, p. 253-54 (2003)
4. Balkan babel: the disintegration of Yugoslavia from the death of Tito to the fall of Milošević, p. 191 (2002)
5. Segel, Harold B. The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, p. 301-03 (2008)
6. Thomas, Phil (3 May 1987) Yugoslavian 'Cousins' doesn't translate well (book review), Observer–Reporter (Associated Press copy)
7. Faceless men & other Macedonian stories (1992) (introductory material includes biographical material including birthdate)