Gordana Jovic Stojkovska
Gordana Jovic Stojkovska was born in 1961 in Grdelica, Serbia, where she finished her primary and secondary school. Although she applied for studies in Skopje on the Biological Faculty, her hometown, Grdelica is a great inspiration lingering in almost all her novels, not only used as a descriptive motive, but as a foundation in creating impressive characters that simply cannot or do not want to be detached from their native roots.
Biography and beginnings
Gordana Jovic Stojkovska lives and works in Skopje. Her literary career started since her youth, by publishing in magazines for culture and youth in Yugoslavia. After the decision to live in Skopje, she started learning the Macedonian language, in which she published her first book Noctabilissmus (night wandering) and was published as an awarded script on the Yugoslavian concourse for a debut book by the Literary club in Kumanovo. With this book, Gordana Jovic Stojkovska is awarded with Mlada Struga 1989. Since the end of the same year, she directs the Literary Youth in Macedonia as a President. Until 2002, she promotes and publishes numerous debutant books on present-day affirmed young writers, makes contacts and collaborations with well-known authors from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, and Russia and maintains a continuous work with writers from Yugoslavia. From 1990 to 1994, Jovic Stojkovska worked as a scenarist in MRTV, where she made children’s TV dramas and series, amongst which the first children actor movie in Turkish language in Macedonia ,,Spomenar’’ and the serial ,,Decata na Makedonija’’. She is active in the field of literary criticism and affirmation of Serbian literature in Macedonia and vice versa, also promoting the modern Macedonian literature in Bulgaria at Literature colonies in Nesebar and on the Philological Faculty in Sofia, where with the organization of Dr. Konstantin Orus, she participates in the Course for Macedonian literature. With the program
Biography and beginnings
Gordana Jovic Stojkovska lives and works in Skopje. Her literary career started since her youth, by publishing in magazines for culture and youth in Yugoslavia. After the decision to live in Skopje, she started learning the Macedonian language, in which she published her first book Noctabilissmus (night wandering) and was published as an awarded script on the Yugoslavian concourse for a debut book by the Literary club in Kumanovo. With this book, Gordana Jovic Stojkovska is awarded with Mlada Struga 1989. Since the end of the same year, she directs the Literary Youth in Macedonia as a President. Until 2002, she promotes and publishes numerous debutant books on present-day affirmed young writers, makes contacts and collaborations with well-known authors from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, and Russia and maintains a continuous work with writers from Yugoslavia. From 1990 to 1994, Jovic Stojkovska worked as a scenarist in MRTV, where she made children’s TV dramas and series, amongst which the first children actor movie in Turkish language in Macedonia ,,Spomenar’’ and the serial ,,Decata na Makedonija’’. She is active in the field of literary criticism and affirmation of Serbian literature in Macedonia and vice versa, also promoting the modern Macedonian literature in Bulgaria at Literature colonies in Nesebar and on the Philological Faculty in Sofia, where with the organization of Dr. Konstantin Orus, she participates in the Course for Macedonian literature. With the program
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