• 18.06.2026.
• Zagreb, HR

New title – „Bayezid and Olivera“

We present the novel by Dragi Mihajlovski, translated by Borislav Pavlovski, which tells the complex story of Olivera Lazarević and Sultan Bayezid I.

After the bloody defeat of her father’s army at the Battle of Kosovo, the Serbian princess Olivera Lazarević, sister of Despot Stefan Lazarević, becomes the wife of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I—a man she is expected to hate, the enslaver of her people and the destroyer of the world she once knew. Yet from this political marriage emerges a complex relationship of passion, attraction, mistrust, and guilt, opening a space where love and revenge, faith and desire, power and powerlessness collide.

From the solitude of a monastic cell, an aging Olivera reconstructs her own life in confession: her father’s death, her arrival at the Ottoman court, her fascination with Bayezid, and the burden of sin that follows her for years. Told in a richly poetic language, enriched with philosophical reflections and historical layers, the novel Bayezid and Olivera is a powerful story of a woman’s fate, trapped between two empires and two truths—historical and personal.

Through this novel, Dragi Mihajlovski confirms his status as a lucid chronicler of long-gone Balkan epochs, delivering an intimate and deeply moving story about love, power, and the cost of survival in a world burdened by wars and the fall of empires.

You can learn more about the book here.