Poets

Ivan Šopov was born in Skopje, 1987 and graduated General and Comparative Literature at the “Ss. Cyril and Methodius ”University in his hometown.

He is author of the books “An Alphabet and Notes Gone Astray” (short stories, 2010), for which he received the award “Novite!” for best debut prose, “Belly of the Year” (poems in prose, 2012), “The Chronicles of Arslan Dailey” (satirical articles, 2018), “Skopje: the Lost Shoes of the City” (short stories, 2020). He also writes poetry and haiku. His poems and short stories have been translated into several languages: English, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Romanian and German.

He translated books by Ambrose Bierce, Madeleine Thien, Roman Kissiov, Mikhail Veshim, Miroslav Krleža, Bojan Babić, Asja Bakić, Dragoslav Mihailović, Irena Vrkljan, Zvonko Karanović, Martha Nussbaum and others into Macedonian.