Author: Dejan Trajkoski
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 23 December 2010

Goce Smilevski is a writer from Macedonia who has won the European Union Prize for Literature 2010, for his last book ‘Sigmund Freud's Sister’, along with 10 other European authors. The ceremony was held in the Flagey Theatre in Brussels on 18 November 2010, where Smilevski was presented with the award by the Minister of Culture of Belgium, Mrs. Fadila Laanan.

Author: Dejan Trajkoski
Place: the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 15 February 2010

His works has been translated into twenty languages: Nikola Madzirov, author from Strumica, a town in the southeast of Macedonia. Madzirov (37), is a poet, author, editor and translator. He has published four poetry books and the most recent one, "Relocated stone" (2007), was awarded with the Hubert Burda Prize for Young East European Lyrics. The chairs of the jury included the Austrian novelist Peter Handke and the German author and publisher Michael Krüger.

Author: Danijela Marinković
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 15 March 2010

Lidija Dimkovska is a Macedonian poet who lives in Slovenia. She holds a degree in Romanian literature. She first took part in a poetry competition when she was 15, and published her first book of poems together with Boris Čavkoski when she was 21. The book won her a poetry debut prize. In an interview with Southeast-Europe: People and Culture, Dimkovska recalls her beginnings as a poet, when her mother brought back from work a written off typewriter. She named this typewriter Ljubica and used it to type out the poems she always writes by hand.

Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Date: 24 August 2009

Ever since its foundations were laid by a series of spontaneous readings in 1962, the Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) has been a festival celebrating diversity. Not just in language, rhyme, rhythm and form but also in nationality, race and colour. The event, which recently concluded its 48th edition, has in the past 47 years been a meeting point for more than 4.000 poets, translators, essayists and literary critics from 95 countries.