PETKO DABESKI was born in 1939 in the village of Volkovija, Tetovo. He was educated at the Cyril Pejcinovic Secondary School in Tetovo and he got his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the Uni¬versity of Belgrade. He first started publishing his poetry in youth magazines and literary periodicals in 1955. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry in Macedonian: The Third Move (1982), Free Kick, The Fourth Coordinate, Parabolas, The Bride's Chest, Outside the Experience, Things above the Words, Guardians of the Fortress, Not all is Haiku, Shroud of Words, Naiveties (poems in prose), Capriccio for Lyre and Bagpipe, Pencil of Parabolas. He has also edited the Anthology of Macedonian Haiku Poetry (2003). His various awards and honours include: twice winner of the Miladinov Brothers literary award at the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1987 & 2004 for his books The Fourth Coordinate and Pencil of Parabolas, respectively. For more than two decades he has been involved in the design, construction and operation of high-voltage timing capacitators and hydroelectric power stations, during which time he has had the opportunity to experience on a personal level the "short circuit" between the specific, preternatural, noumenal and the poetic. He lives in the area where he grew up with his wife Magdalena in Tetovo, Macedonia.

SUDEEP SEN [www.sudeepsen.com] was born in 1964 in New Delhi. He studied literature there and in the USA. As an Inlaks Scholar, he completed an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. He has written, translated & edited many books, including Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins) - poems from which he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA). Most recently, he has published Postcards from Bangladesh, Monsoon, Prayer Flag, and Distracted Geographies, and edited the anthology Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India.His writings have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, London Magazine, Poetry Review, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Times of India, Statesman, Observer, Biblio, Outlook, and India Today, among others. As an invited author, he has read his work worldwide, and has been translated into several languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Persian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. Sen is the editorial director of AARK ARTS; and is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Orient Express, New Quest, and Six Seasons Review; and is an associate of The Paris Review.

Download : Petko Dabeski-Moments & Moment (selected poems)



The list of books received applying for the "Brothers Miladinov" award:

• Suzana V. Spasovska - Smrtno pismo
• Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan - Nebesni strazhi
• Nikola Jovanovski - Gostinska odaja
• Ilhami Emin - Gjulpat
• Daniela Rac - Kameno oko
• Bratislav Tashkovski - Pesni od mination vek
• Aneta Gilevska-Velkoska - Dali site bogovi se romantichni
• Bozhidar Zimski - Koga kravite kje si dojdat doma
• Kire Nedelkovski - Sudbini i sonishta
• Kiril Kangov - Vardarska rapsodija
• Goran Anchevski - Boemsko Skopje
• Vladimir Lukash / Aleksandar Krstev - Mamurlaci
• Maja Apostolska - Prekin na komunikacijata
• Risto Shanev - Prsten na vremeto
• Mirche Neshovski - Patrijarh na vselenata
• Marko Kostovski - Nekogash i sega
• Bogomil Gjuzel - Opstanok
• Sasho Gigov-Gish - Metahemija
• Petko Dabeski - Snop paraboli
• Igor Isakovski - Dlaboko vo dupkata
• Mateja Matevski - Otade zaboravot
• Gane Todorovski - Orach ili voin
• Vidoe Vidichevski - Kazhuvanje na zadocnetiot prorok
• Igor Markovski - Jas, Petar
• Mitre R. Nikolov - Ostavete ne na pragot
• Aleksandar Popovski - Haiku i nekoi drugi minijaturni izvedbi
• Stojmir Velkov - Bolno selo
• Simona Ilieva - Ognomet na dushata
• Milan Prangoski-Selechki - Selci vo pesni
• Borche Orashanski - Dvizhenje na molkot