{"id":4942,"date":"2026-09-01T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:27:58","slug":"vlada-urosevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/2026\/ucesnici-2026\/vlada-urosevic\/","title":{"rendered":"Vlada Urosevic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" src=\"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vlada-urosevic.jpg\" alt=\"\u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0430 \u0423\u0440\u043e\u0448\u0435\u0432\u0438\u045b\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vlada-urosevic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vlada-urosevic-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vlada Uro\u0161evi\u0107<\/strong> (Skopje, 1934) is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, literary and art critic, anthologist, and translator. He holds a PhD in Philology and is a retired full professor at the Bla\u017ee Koneski Faculty of Philology at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, where he taught the history of 19th- and 20th-century European literature. He is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the European Academy of Poetry, the Slavic Academy of Literature and Art, and a corresponding member of the Acad\u00e9mie Mallarm\u00e9 in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>He has been an active presence on the Macedonian literary scene since the mid-1950s. He published his first collection of poetry, <em>Another City<\/em>, in 1959. He is the author of an extensive and wide-ranging body of work encompassing poetry, prose, essays, travel writing, art criticism, and anthologies. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Macedonian fantastic literature, with surrealism, myth, dreams, and imagination interwoven throughout his work. Among his most significant poetry collections are <em>Diving Bell<\/em> (1975), <em>Hypnopolis<\/em> (1986), <em>Secret Gold<\/em> (2016), and <em>Labyrinth<\/em> (2019); his notable collections of short stories include <em>Signs<\/em> (1963), <em>The Night Coach<\/em> (1972), <em>A Unicorn Hunt<\/em> (1983), <em>Skopje Stories<\/em> (1988), and <em>Secret Mission<\/em> (2013); while his novels include <em>The Taste of Peaches<\/em> (1965), <em>My Cousin Emilia<\/em> (1994), <em>The Court Poet in a Flying Machine<\/em> (1996), <em>Wild League<\/em> (2000), <em>Dragon\u2019s Bride<\/em> (2008), and <em>Macun<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n<p>He has translated works by Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Andr\u00e9 Breton, Henri Michaux, Jacques Pr\u00e9vert, and Alain Bosquet into Macedonian, as well as selections of poetry by Oskar Davi\u010do, Vasko Popa, and Miodrag Pavlovi\u0107. For his literary and translation work, he was first named a Knight and later an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Government of the French Republic. His books have been translated into English, Bulgarian, German, Danish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Serbian, French, Croatian, and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of the founders of the Struga Poetry Evenings. He has won the award for the best poem read at the festival three times, the <em>Miladinov Brothers Award<\/em> for the best poetry collection three times, and, in 2023, the <em>Golden Wreath<\/em>, the highest honour of the Struga Poetry Evenings. He is also the recipient of the <em>Grigor Prli\u010dev Award<\/em> and the <em>Racin Recognition<\/em>, the <em>Halide Edip Ad\u0131var Award<\/em> of the Turkish PEN Centre, the <em>Great Flying Feather Award<\/em> at the international poetry festival <em>Slavic Embrace<\/em> in Varna, and the <em>Sergei Yesenin Order<\/em> of the Union of Russian Writers. In 2024, the Republic of Serbia awarded him the <em>Order of Sretenje, First Class<\/em>, for outstanding contributions to literature and culture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vlada Uro\u0161evi\u0107 (Skopje, 1934) is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, literary and art critic, anthologist, and translator. 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