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Venko Andonovski

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Venko Andonovski
Venko Andonovski
Venko Andonovski
Native name
Венко Андоновски
BornVenko Andonovski
Kumanovo
SFRY (today: Macedonia)
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, playwright, poet
LanguageMacedonian
NationalityMacedonia
Period1986–present
Notable worksNavel of the World

Venko Andonovski is a Macedonian writer (novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet), essayist, critic and literary theorist.

Biography

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Venko Andonovski graduated from the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. He holds a PhD in Philology and works as a professor at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. Andonovski is a member of the PEN center.[1] In 1990 he became a member of the Writers' Association of Macedonia.[2]

Personal life

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His brother Vedran Andonovski is a journalist and works for Voice of America in the United States.[3]

Creativity

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  • Poetry
    • The gentle heart of the Barbarian
  • Short stories
    • Quarter of liricharite
    • Frescoes and grotesques
  • Novels
    • Alphabet for the disobedient
    • Navel of the World[4]
    • Witch[5]
    • Daughter of the mathematician / 33.33
  • Dramas
    • Doomsday machine
    • Riot in a retirement home
    • Slavic Chest
    • Black dolls
    • Candide in Wonderland
    • Cunegonde in Carlaland
    • Border
    • Saint of Darkness
    • Lead pillow
  • Literary criticism
    • Matoshe's bells
    • The texts processes
    • Structure of the Macedonian realistic novel
    • Decryption

Screenwriting

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  • North Macedonia Infernal Machine, TV Movie (1995)[6]
  • North Macedonia Vo svetot na bajkite, TV Series (1995)[7]
  • Czech Republic Upside Down (2007)[8] (together with Igor Ivanov Izi)
  • North Macedonia Prespav, TV Series (2016)[9]

Religion

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In a 2008 interview for religious online portal Premin,

On journalist question:

Do you when creating your work have an ongoing "dialogue" with God in terms of person to a person or the dialogue goes down to silently standing before God and translating the experience (on a stand Absolute) in to this word?

Venko answered:

I Always remember how it was when writing the "Navel of the World." Three and a half years I have sketched and collected material. I stored it up a lot, but everything was scattered in notebooks and computer files. That year, sometime in September, entirely without a plan, someone started sorting those scattered files. Like it was creating a mosaic. It woke me up at three, four o'clock in the morning and I was getting to work. I've never gotten up without an alarm clock. Finally, I decided to go in solitude. I went to Berovo. Before I moved in the bungalow that I've rented I lit a candle in the Church "Virgin Mary". Then, in the next twelve days, I lost sense of day and night. I woke up when I had to write down what someone obviously wanted me to. It was like someone dictated it to me. How I enjoyed it, I of course, write it down, but with great anxiety and thought. It was not just a monologue. I asked a question, which then I had to answer it. The novel was finished and I returned two days earlier to Skopje (than planned).

I have enough years of experience to know that I did not write the novel myself, or just myself. Call it as you want - but I call it a blessing. Lord (I am a believer) You at least held my hand, if I did not deserved more - my mind and heart, for example. In this I was convinced, though I always speak about this experience with anxiety, from fear that people who do not believe in anything except themselves - will make fun of me.

No great art comes without contact with the One and Indivisible, Almighty and Sublime. I do not only think it but also feel it the same.[10]

Awards

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See also

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References

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