Zanina MIRCEVSKA

1996
  • Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Macedonia
Macedonian

Zanina MIRCEVSKA teaches playwriting, directing, and creative writing in the drama department of the University of Skopje. Her most recent play, The Place Where I Have Never Been, was staged this year in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She received her theatre and film training at the University of Ljubljana, and earned the M.A. from the Kiril I Metodij University in Skopje. Her many publications include a collection of plays in English, A Dream and Other Works (Metaforum, Skopje, 1996); several screenplays including The Disappearance of Susana Arsova (1993). Most of her performances have toured in Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia, and Bosnia. She is the IWP's first representative from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and she is at the IWP through a grant from the USIA.

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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