Venko Andonovski

Venko Andonovski[1] graduated from the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. He holds a PhD in Philology and works as a professor at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. Andonovski is a member of the PEN center. In 1990 he became a member of the Writers' Association of Macedonia.[2]

Venko went to High school Orce Nikolov in Skopje together with journalist Nikola Mladenov founder of Fokus newspaper. In his youth, he started writing poems, since he was a young child . His late father was Veroljub Andonovski, the Nova Makedonija journalist.

He is currently married to Danka and lives in Skopje.

Venko has six children: Deana, Katerina, Veda, David, Vidan and Grigorij.

His brother Vedran Andonovski is a journalist and works for Voice of America in the United States.[3]

• Poetry
  • The gentle heart of the Barbarian
• Short stories
  • Quarter of liricharite
  • Frescoes and grotesques
• Novels
  • Alphabet for the disobedient
  • Navel of the World[4]
  • Witch[5]
  • Daughter of the mathematician / 33.33
• Dramas
  • Doomsday machine
  • Riot in a retirement home
  • Slavic Chest
  • Black dolls
  • Candide in Wonderland
  • Cunegonde in Carlaland
  • Border
  • Saint of Darkness
  • Lead pillow
• Literary criticism
  • Matoshe's bells
  • The texts processes
  • Structure of the Macedonian realistic novel
  • Decryption

• Infernal Machine, TV Movie (1995)[6]
• Vo svetot na bajkite, TV Series (1995)[7]
• Upside Down (2007)[8] (together with Igor Ivanov Izi)
• Prespav, TV Series (2016)[9]

In a 2008 interview for religious online portal Premin,

On journalist question:

Do you when creating your work have an ongoing "dialogue" with God in terms of person to a person or the dialogue goes down to silently standing before God and translating the experience (on a stand Absolute) in to this word?

Venko answered:

I Always remember how it was when writing the "Navel of the World." Three and a half years I have sketched and collected material. I stored it up a lot, but everything was scattered in notebooks and computer files. That year, sometime in September, entirely without a plan, someone started sorting those scattered files. Like it was creating a mosaic. It woke me up at three, four o'clock in the morning and I was getting to work. I've never gotten up without an alarm clock. Finally, I decided to go in solitude. I went to Berovo. Before I moved in the bungalow that I've rented I lit a candle in the Church "Virgin Mary". Then, in the next twelve days, I lost sense of day and night. I woke up when I had to write down what someone obviously wanted me to. It was like someone dictated it to me. How I enjoyed it , I of course, write it down, but with great anxiety and thought. It was not just a monologue. I asked a question, which then I had to answer it. The novel was finished and I returned two days earlier to Skopje (than planned).

I have enough years of experience to know that I did not write the novel myself, or just myself. Call it as you want - but I call it a blessing. Lord (I am a believer) You at least held my hand, if I did not deserved more - my mind and heart, for example. In this I was convinced, though I always speak about this experience with anxiety, from fear that people who do not believe in anything except themselves - will make fun of me.

No great art comes without contact with the One and Indivisible, Almighty and Sublime. I do not only think it but also feel it the same.[10]

• (2006) award name: Balkanika for Navel of the World[11]
• (2008) award name: Order of the Holy Macedonian Cross for: Contribution, support and promotion of the Macedonian national, cultural and spiritual identity, awarded by: Macedonian Orthodox Church - Ohrid Archbishopric
• (2013) award name: Stale Popov for Doter of the mathematician[12]
• (2014) award name: Jugra for Navel of the World[13]

• List of people from Kumanovo