Lidija Dimkovska
© stroblond from Skopje/Ljubljana Artist in Residence Okt. 2004 - Nov. 2004	Lidija Dimkovska was born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1971. Studies of comparatistics at the University of Skopje; dissertation about the poet Nichita Stanescu at the University of Bucharest. She writes poetry, essays, literary criticism and also works as a translator. Lidija Dimkovsaka lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Beside her volumes of poetry in Macedonian her poems have also been published in international anthologies: The Song beyond Songs (1997, bilingual edition: Macedonian-English); The End of the Century (1999, bilingual edition: Macedonian-English); An Island On Land, Sydney, 1999; Orpheus and Jesus (2000: bilingual edition: Macedonian-English). Among other languages, her poems were also translated into Russian, Albanian and Polish.