Bio-bibliographical notes on members
Meto Jovanovski
born 1928, the village of Brajčino, Prespa, Macedonia. Worked as a journalist and later on as an editor with the Macedonian Television. Has been secretary and president of the Macedonian Writers Association, vice-president of the Macedonian P.E.N. Centre, vice-president of the Human Rights Forum of Macedonia. Works: Jadresh (short stories, 1952), Liuman the Bandit (children’s novelette, 1952), The Phases of My Moon (short stories, 1956), Butterfly Hunt (novel, 1957), Frost on Almond Blossoms (novel, 1967), Earth and Uneasiness (novel, 1968), First Human Deaths (short stories, 1971), Witnesses (novel, 1972), Fools (novel, 1976; translated into English and published in the USA), The Road to Loneliness (short stories, 1979), Commander above Commanders (children’s novelette, 1980), Sečko Sekula (novelette), The Eagle’s Valley (novel, 1984), The Keys of Manhattan (travelogue, 1983), Leaches (novel, 1984), The Crossroad to Tranquility (short stories, 1987), The Cross, the Bell and the Banner (children’s novel, 1990), The Balkan Book of the Dead or Liberation via Talking, Sečko Sekula (1992), Cousins (novel, translated into English and published in USA), Faceless Man and Other Stories (short stories, published in USA, 1993), Shop for the Curious (2003). Has also written radio and TV Plays. He has compiled the anthology Another America, 1978, and the lexicons Who’s Who, What’s What, 1963, and Small Literary Lexicon, 1971. His short stories have been published into several languages. Translates from Serbo-Croatian, Russian and English, and from the classics of Eastern Literature.
