Dragi Mihajlovski

Dragi Mihajlovski (Bitola, 1951 – Skopje, 2022) was a Macedonian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. He earned both his degree and doctorate in English literature from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, where he later taught at the Department of English Language and Literature. He was also a member of the Macedonian PEN Centre. He was the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Prophet of This Land (2001), The Death of the Deacon (2002, winner of the “Stale Popov” Award), My Skanderbeg (2006, also awarded the “Stale Popov” Prize), Bayezid and Olivera (2009), Debtors (2014), Switzerland in the Balkans (2015), and Odysseus’ Vigil (2018). Mihajlovski also published several short story collections, among them Pole Vault (1994, recipient of the Racine Award for the best prose book of the year), The Gates of Tripoli (1999), Stories from the Sixth Floor (2003), The Butterfly Collector (2010), Clay Man (2014), Stories and Parallel Commentaries (2015), and Journey to Paradise (2017). His works have been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Albanian, Turkish, and Bulgarian. Mihajlovski was also a distinguished translator from English into Macedonian. Among his most notable translations are the Old English epic Beowulf, Paradise Lost by John Milton, 37 plays and 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, as well as works by numerous English poets, especially the Metaphysical poets and T. S. Eliot.