Talk with Ivan \u0160opov. Moderator: Bojan Babi\u0107
Wednesday, September 28, 7pm
KROKODIL’s Center, Kara\u0111or\u0111eva 43<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, September 28, starting at 7 pm, at an event in KROKODIL’s Center, we will present the Macedonian writer and translator Ivan \u0160opov, who is staying at KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence during the month of September. The talk will be moderated by writer Bojan Babi\u0107, whose novel “Ilegalni Parnas” was recently translated into Macedonian by Ivan \u0160opov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivan \u0160opov <\/strong>was born in Skopje, 1987 and graduated General and Comparative Literature at the \u201cSs. Cyril and Methodius\u201d University in his hometown. Ivan \u0160opov’s stay at KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence is supported by the European literary network Traduki.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Talk with Ivan \u0160opov. Moderator: Bojan Babi\u0107Wednesday, September 28, 7pmKROKODIL’s Center, Kara\u0111or\u0111eva 43 On Wednesday, September 28, starting at 7 pm, at an event in KROKODIL’s Center, we will present the Macedonian writer and translator Ivan \u0160opov, who is staying at KROKODIL’s Writer-in-residence during the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4,207],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17471,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions\/17471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
He is author of the books “An Alphabet and Notes Gone Astray” [\u0410\u0437\u0431\u0443\u043a\u0430 \u0438 \u0437\u0430\u043b\u0443\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0438] (short stories, 2010), for which he received the award “Novite!” for best debut prose, “Belly of the Year” [\u041c\u0435\u0448\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0430] (poems in prose, 2012), “The Chronicles of Arslan Dailey” [\u0425\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u0410\u0440\u0441\u043b\u0430\u043d \u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0430\u0440\u0441\u043a\u0438] (satirical articles, 2018), “Skopje: the Lost Shoes of the City” [\u0421\u043a\u043e\u043f\u0458\u0435: \u0438\u0437\u0433\u0443\u0431\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0447\u0435\u0432\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0433\u0440\u0430\u0434\u043e\u0442] (short stories, 2020). He also writes poetry and haiku. His poems and short stories have been translated into several languages: English, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Romanian and German.
He translated books by Ambrose Bierce, Madeleine Thien, Roman Kissiov, Mikhail Veshim, Miroslav Krle\u017ea, Bojan Babi\u0107, Asja Baki\u0107, Dragoslav Mihailovi\u0107, Irena Vrkljan, Zvonko Karanovi\u0107, Martha Nussbaum and others into Macedonian.
In the period from 2012 to 2018 he worked as an editor in the publishing house Templum and on the internet portal Okno.
He was part of the organizing team of the literary festivals “Another Story” [\u0414\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0437\u043d\u0430] and “ArtArea”. He is one of the founders of the coffee-bookshop “Bukva” in Skopje and the mobile cultural center “KC 750”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n