The "Pleiades"
edition was established in 1999 as a result of
the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival's growing
need for better presentation of its renowned poets-participants.
The symbolism of the Pleiades constelation, which
consisits of seven stars, suggests the translation
and publicaton of the same number of books. However,
due to objective circumstances (finances, translation
difficulties, obtaining royalies etc.) their number
in the beginning varied, only to stabilise in
the past three years.
Edition 1999
Slavko Mihalich (Croatia),
"The Garden of Black Apples"
Blaga Dimitrova (Bulgaria), "Scars"
Vjacheslav Kuprijanov (Russia), "Singing
and Thinking Exercises"
Fatos Arapi (Albania), "A Day of Sorrow"
Markos Meskos (Greece), "Distant Land"
Kenneth White (Canada), "Travelling through
Wandering Dawns"
Edition 2000
Istvan Agh (Hungary),
"The Flowering Dream"
Veno Taufer (Slovenia), "The World's Wound"
Jan Tvardovski (Poland), "Love Seeking for
Love"
Ozdemir Ince (Turkey), "The Face of Fear"
Amir Or (Israel), "Drowning, I Breathe Living
Water"
Rainer Kunze (Germany), "Poetry"
Tomas Transtromer (Sweden), "When the Snowflakes
Blossom in the Universe"
Edition 2001
Jean Logie (France),
"Jubilee"
Milan Rufos (Slovakia), "Daily Dialogue"
Mohammed Bennis (Morocco), "The Gift of Emptiness"
Radmila Lazic (Serbia and Montenegro), "Twilight's
Metaphysics"
Leopoldo de Luis (Spain), "No one Departs
from Here"
Edition 2002
Tom Petsinis (Australia),
"Heritage"
Katarina Frostenson (Sweden), "Voices from
the Plains"
Edition 2003
Safaa Fati (Egypt),
"The First and the Last"
Marko Veshovich (Bosnia and Herzegovina), "Field
Cavalry"
Pavlo Movchan (Ukraine), "The Sacrificial
Site"
Helen Dorion (Canada), "Lights and Shadows"
Nikolaj K'nchev (Bulgaria), "The Collar of
Millstone"
Anastasis Vistonitis (Greece), "Internal
Exile"
Dritero Agoli (Albania), "The Defeat of Lek
Dukagini"
Edition 2004
Abdel Kader El Janabi
(Iraq), "Salt and Memories"
Bei Dao (China), "Bed of Insomnia"
Arturo Corcuera (Peru), "The Dance of the
Caged Bird"
Ana Blandiana (Romania), "Archangel in Soot"
John F. Deane (Ireland), "Testament of Pain"
Philippe Jones (Belgium), "Fable or Forest"
Sudeep Sen (India), "Alexander's Soil"
Edition 2005
Tanikawa Suntaru (Japan),
"Minimal"
Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa), "Time
of War and Need"
Rita Dove (USA), "Stolen Time"
Lionel Ray (France), "Syllables of Sand"
Les Murray (Australia), "Learning Human"
Tarek Eltayeb (Sudan), "A Stone Larger than the Sky"
Hedi Bouraoui (Canada), "Struga"
Edition 2006
To be completed by July