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LITERATURE
Robert Alagjozovski
The author is a literary critic
and a PhD candidate(ABD)
in Cultural Management
Discomfort in
finding a home
To the novel No-Oui, by Lidija Dimkovska, published by Ili-Ili, August, 2016
Writing is a pleasure for to the social events. In this regard, we could
Lidija Dimkovska. This conclude that she is a rare artistic and intel-
does not mean that our lectual figure in the Republic of Macedonia.
perspective is not sharp
and it does not mean that The system of literary residencies
we wouldn’t like to have a critical approach. Before we conclude the text with anover-
We actually did this also for her previous
two novels, where we located weaknesses, view to the very novel, as usual, let us re-
although they were rated as the most valu- view another aspect of the literary system
able both in the country and abroad. For her which affects the cultural policy. Namely,
second novel, A Spare Life she also won the this novel by Lidija Dimovska is a fruit of her
prestigious EU Prize for Literature. With this stay within the literary residency in Split,
latest, third novel, Dimkovska completely organized by the literary society Kurs, and
matured as an author. In this regard we can under the auspices of the European network
analyze the novel thematically, in regard to for books and translation Traduki, probably
the characters or the poetic approach, how- with slight support from the local or the
ever there are no occupational mistakes. national authorities. The novel is inspired,
On the contrary, her novel is like a chiseled and it was created during Lidija Dimkovska’s
stone. With No-Oui, she became an excellent residential stay of 30 days in Split. Of course
prosaist, because she previously proved her- Split is a magical city, however the fact that
self as a poet, her initial literary passion. Not a literary residency exists is what enables the
only that Dimkovska mastered as a writer, writers to dock in certain areas for a specific
but it seems to me that she is in her most period of time, to meet her stories, to meet
creative stage. Twenty days before the pro- the legendary persons, to become inspired by
motion of the novel, she was popular among the city in an essential sense. This happened
the public with her poetic collection, which to Lidija Dimkovska during this residency.
was an issue of discussion among critics, And it also previously happened to the fa-
that she does not deserve to enter among the mous columnist Teofil Pancic, who wrote
narrowest selection for the most renowned his first prose in Split, 39 Days of June, illu-
poetic award “Brakja Miladinovci”. Several minating the Croatian-Serbian conditions,
months ago, again with alittle controversy however also the Balkan conditions in gen-
in the public, which is not important in this eral, whereby Split as a topos is an essential
context, she won the acknowledgement basis of the very prose, which is the starting
for most widely read author in the librar- point of the geopoetic knitting of the entire
ies. Lidija Dimkovska also does not refrain narrative and intellectual technique.
through statements and interviews in the
public, to sharply tell her attitudes in regard There areother examples as well. The
Croatian writer made a series of articles
and travelogues about Tirana, inspired by
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