Marta Markoska was born on 29.06.1981 in Skopje, Macedonia

SHORT BIOGRAPHY


She holds a Bachelor of General and Comparative Literature from the "Blaze Koneski" Faculty of Philology in Skopje, and a Master of Cultural Studies from the Institute of Macedonian Literature in Skopje.
She is a member of the Writers Association of Macedonia.
Till now she has thirteen (13) publications:
H/ERO/T/IC BOOK (Published in Hong Kong, 2020, 2nd Edition)
H/ERO/T/IC BOOK (Erotic poetry, 2019, 1st Edition)
FIL/L/M/ED STOR/I/ES, Studies and Essays about Movies and Cinematography (2017)
Black Holes Within Us, Serbian translation "Crne rupe u nama" (2017)
Black Holes Within Us, 2nd Edition, Macedonian-English translation ("Todor Chalovski" Award, 2015)
Black Holes Within Us, 1st Edition, Poetry Book ("Beli Mugri" Award, 2014)
Culture and Memory (Book of Cultural Studies), 2014
A Discussion on Zen Buddhism: A Religious and Philosophical Transcendence Between Eastern and Western Thought, a Scientific Study (2013);
Headfirst Toward the Heights, Poetry (2nd Edition)
Headfirst Toward the Heights, Poetry (1st Edition, Winner of the "Aco Karamanov" Award);
Hyper Hypotheses, a Collection of Essays (2011);
Whirlpool in Bethlehem, a Collection of Stories (2010);
All Tributaries Flow Into My Basin, Poetry (2009).
LITERARY AWARDS:
"Todor Calovski" (2015) for poetry, essays, critic and creative prose
"Nova Makedonija" (2015) for short story "Heights of Felix"
"Beli Mugri" (2014) for poetry book "Black Holes Within Us"
"Aco Karamanov" (2012) for poetry book "Headfirst Toward The Heights"
"Elektrolit" (2007) for best short story "What happens when you're reading Frazer"
Her writings were included in many Macedonian and foreign Anthologies, Magazines and Scientific Journals. Markoska is also an anthology maker and author of the preface of book entitled: "Love Sailings’ Reefs" (Anthology of poems dedicated to Eros and Love, 2014)
She is the pioneer in launching The First Literary Talk Show in Macedonia, dedicated to all famous Macedonian poets called "Literary Magnitudes".

Markoska is also well known to the audience with her Late Night Show named: Marta’s Palace and The Campaign for showing the Beauty of a Woman After Breast Cancer, LARGER THAN LIFE.

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The sky is too narrow for the both of us
we gathered all its blessings
Now we have no home, we are nobody’s children
and we thought it was God’s design that we meet
not to double our joys
But to share our griefs

The Earth is too round
to understand the sharpness of angles
of strict geometric forms
that life had put us in
And so, trapped in multiple dimensions
we are hoping for a linear life

You say: Fate is corrupted
but She will take no pennies
And we don’t have millions to bribe Her
so that we are allowed to live by each other’s side
as much as we want to
as much as we deserve!