Zhivko Grozdanoski

Zhivko Grozdanoski, born 1986, has lived most of his life in his home village of Bigor Dolenci in the western part of Macedonia. He attended the American High School Skopje and went on to study Italian Language and Literature at the University of Skopje. He translates prose and poetry from Italian and has published four books (a book of poetry, two collections of short stories, and a novel). In 2006 he presented a short amateur documentary during the International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. Grozdanoski most recent book, the novel The Final Name of the Future, 2018) is set in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina where a tunnel engineer from East Germany is sent to work on a site and comes across some life-changing revelations.