Irena Jordanova

Irena Jordanova
Born	(1980-09-08)September 8, 1980 Skopje Republic of Macedonia
Occupation	Author

Irena Jordanova (born September 8, 1980) is a Macedonian writer. She graduated from the Department of World and Comparative Literature at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje.

Career

Jordanova published her first story titled "Streets" in a joint student publication named Calculation at WCL. She also published short stories in various Macedonian literary magazines.^[1] Her first novel, In Between, was published in 2008 and was a finalist for the prestigious national Novel of the Year Award ^[2] by the daily newspaper Utrinski vesnik. With her creative prose, she participated in numerous events, readings and conferences and she took part of the International Biennial of Young Artists from Europe^[3] in 2009. In 2010, she published her second novel, The Catalyst 33.

The critics find her writing style as a fiction with bold self-irony. It is a fiction that shows, at the same time, a broad literary culture and a full range of storytelling techniques. Using different kind of "shifts" she plays with meanings and allusions. The permanent dialogue between "I and the Other" she is moving everything that is "fixed" in "mobile" creating a "new ethic" within the traditional literary norms. In her works there is a predominance of bizarre as aesthetic and ethical element creating an original storytelling line.

The Catalyst 33 was published in English in 2012

Books

• In Between (2008, Skopje: Ili Ili Publishing)
• The Catalyst 33 (2010, Skopje: Ili Ili Publishing)

References