Bozin Pavlovski

BOZIN PAVLOVSKI (NOVELIST)

Bozin Pavlovski is born in Macedonia on 7 January 1942. After living in former Yugoslavia and United States, from 1990 he is based in Melbourne, Australia. Pavlovski studied literature at the University of Skopje and graduated in 1971. For over thirty years he was a publisher of world literature in former Yugoslavia. Since 1989, he has divided his time as a professional novelist traveling between Europe and Australia.

Bozin Pavlovski has written fourteen novels in Macedonian, out of which ten have been translated in English in collaboration with authors and friends, including James Thomev, Biljana John, Michael Serafinov and his daughter Elena Ciavarella, with supervision by Irina Dunn. The novels are: ‘Winter in Summer’, ‘Home is Where the Heart is’, ‘The Red Hypocrite’, ‘Eagle Coat of Arms’, ‘A Novel for My Departure’, ‘Journey with My Beloved’, ‘Egyptian Dreamer’, ‘The Agony of Macedonia’, ‘The Milk of Human Kindness’, ‘The Beauty and the Marauder’.

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Recognitions and Awards

In 1988 Bozin Pavlovski was elected as a member of Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Literature. There are more than 40 foreign editions, and more than 150 Macedonian editions of his works.

Pavlovski has won numerous literary awards including Interbalkan Award for Literature in Greece (2002).

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Literary works

Novels

Miladin from China (1967)Duva and The Flea (1973)West Aust (1977)The Red Hypocrite (1984)Neighboring The Owl (1987)Return to Fairy Tales (1989)Eagle Coat of Arms (1997)Journey with My Beloved (2000)Egyptian Dreamer (2001)A Novel for My Departure (2003)The Agony of Macedonia (2004)The Milk of Human Kindness (2005)The Beauty and The Marauder (2006)Winter in Summer (2007)

Short stories and non - fiction (in Macedonian)

Fantasti (1964)Ludisti (1967)Makedoncite otade Ekvatorot (1971)Collection of short stories (1980)Taga za mojata prva tatkovina (2002)Nazad kon razumot (2003)Rozovo na crnoto (2005)

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References

The works of Pavlovski have resulted in bibliography comprising of almost thousand entries. Alain Bosquet wrote about the French translation of the novel ‘West Aust’ in "Le Monde”,” this novel has an astonishing stratified multi-Iayered projection with a two fold drama". Yann Queffelec emphasized in "Le Nouvel Observateur" that "a powerful and truthful novel in which the words are full of meaning and warmth" had been brought before the French readers, whereas Nichita Stanescu compared Pavlovski with some distinguished American novelists in "Luceafarul".

What characterizes Bozin Pavlovski’s opus as a whole is the fresh starts of each work. The poetic and structural art of his fiction is matched by the larger philosophical themes, wrote Darie Novaceanu in "Cartea romaneasca".

In his short stories, and particularly in his novels, Pavlovski has reached new creative peaks in contemporary fiction: he has made the large theme of emigration his very own, giving it a focus both indispensable and necessary.

Two things characterize the novels of Pavlovski: the outer world of the wanderer or migrant and the inner world of the passionate seeker of a centre of gravity for the ethical questions that assail the restless individual in our times.Pavlovski has deepened the vision of human destiny in dealing with unfortunate people with divided souls, dissecting humanity in a new society – his heroes experience conflicts, which augments their loneliness and estrangement.

The most remarkable job that Pavlovski does is to create heroes with capacity to tremble in the air a few fingers above the ground after it has been pulled from under their feet. The analysis of the characters and their existential dilemmas in all their concrete detail is done in a style that is lucid, passionate and astonishing.

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Bozin Pavlovski

Born: "7 January 1942"Occupation: "Novelist, Short story writer"Nationality: "Macedonian, Australian"Literary movement: "Magic realism, Hyperrealism"Influences: "Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Proust, Camus, Andric, Hesse, Kafka, Borges, Kawabata"