Julijana Velichkovska (1982, Skopje, North Macedonia) is a writer, editor, translator, and poetry festival organizer. She is the founder of the publishing house PNV Publikacii in Skopje, a co-founder and director of the Skopje Poetry Festival, and the program director of the Velestovo Poetry Night Festival in Ohrid. She is a member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association.
She is the author of two poetry books: Комарци (Mosquitoes, 2010) and Отворена книга ( Open Book, 2017); a novel, Годишни времиња (Seasons, 2014, 2nd edition in 2015, 3rd edition in 2019, and 4th edition in 2022); and a children’s book, Ведра (Vedra, 2022, 2nd edition in 2023), for which she won the Best Text in a Picture Book Award at the International Children’s Literature and Illustration Festival Litera in 2023. She has also authored a monograph, XX Години Поетска ноќ во Велестово (XX Years of Velestovo Poetry Night, 2009), and she has translated the work of more than 30 writers from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, Greece, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Croatia, Denmark, Azerbaijan, Malta, the Faroe Islands, and Montenegro into Macedonian.
Her poetry has been translated into twenty languages, and her novel Seasons was translated into Bulgarian and published in 2017 by “Ergo”, Sofia. A selection of her poems entitled Box of Fear has been translated into Azerbaijani and published by Zardabi in Baku, 2024, another selection of her poems entitled “Expecting Lions” has been translated into English and will be published by Three Spires Press in Cork, Ireland, by the end of 2024. . Her poetry has also been included in many anthologies of contemporary Macedonian poetry published in Macedonia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Colombia, as well as in a world contemporary poetry anthology published in China, and a poetry collection of seven European poets published in Albania. Her short stories have been published in three anthologies in Macedonia. She has been invited to perform her work at many international literary festivals across Europe and Asia.