Zarko Kujundziski

Who is Zarko Kujundziski?

Zarko Kujundziski is a Macedonian novelist and playwright. His short stories have been translated in different languages and selected in many anthologies in Macedonia and abroad. His shorty-story "When the glasses are lost" was included in collection Best European fiction 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press.

He gained bachelor's degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Philology “Blaže Koneski” in Skopje. In 2009 he has defended his master's degree thesis "Aspects of microfiction in the American and the Macedonian literature", as a first longer study in the world on the subject of microfiction.

Kujundžiski belongs among youngest generation of writers in Macedonia. He has published the books Spectator, America, Andrew, love and other disasters, Found and Lost, 13, My Susan again girl, The shortest long.

At the age of 23 he debuted as a novelist with Spectator. Spectator is the first debut novel in the history of contemporary Macedonian literature which has been published in five different editions. In 2011 Spectator has been translated and published into English language and in 2012 translated and published into Polish language.