What is she doing today: Frosina Parmakovska, writer

Frosina Parmakovska / Photo: Private archive / Zlatko Parmakovski

Frosina Parmakovska is a Macedonian writer. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje at the department of General and Comparative Literature, and later she received her master's degree from the Institute of Macedonian Literature, on the topic "Variations of magical realism in the world and Macedonian novel".

In 2013, Parmakovska published the novel "Writing the Lost Balls", followed by her second novel "Vishnova Chronicle", which was a finalist for the Novel of the Year award. In 2017, Frosina published her third novel entitled "Countdown", for which she received the Novel of the Year award, which is awarded by the "Slavko Janevski" Foundation for the Promotion and Advancement of Cultural Values. Since February 2018, she is a member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia. In the same year, at the Book Fair, Parmakovska also received the award for the most successful domestic author, which is awarded by the Macedonian Association of Publishers. Frosina also published the novel "On the way back" two years ago.

Frosina Parmakovska / Photo: Private archive

Frosina told us what her day looks like.

- My day depends a lot on the period of the year and, of course, on current obligations. Now, in the summer, everything moves a little slower, more intimate and calmer. I start the day with coffee, cigarettes and a skipped breakfast, and I devote my first thoughts to my latest novel, with whom, at this early stage, the friendship is diverse – through a laptop, through sketches on paper and many, many trips with my thoughts to that side where that we examine ourselves with the character and what he does in his day and in his life.

I don't yet have a precise pace, a precise rhythm, so from the beginning of the day, and then at any time interval, I go back to it, one way or another. When it gets the hottest, I "light up" the scooter and go to the office where I finish some tasks (not every day, maybe, every two or three days) after which I try to visit my friends in the center, for some coffee or a beer or two - three.

Frosina Parmakovska / Photo: Zlatko Parmakovski

At home I have a ritual part that now I make sure it's not later than 18:XNUMX, I drink my last coffee, always, in addition to the music I currently enjoy, it's currently Turkish rock that goes great with Turkish coffee and ripe fig sweets. Somewhere along the way I also work on the website Lektira.mk, which is a kind of electronic anthology of contemporary Macedonian prose.

Evenings are mostly for me and for the people I love, whether through conversation, dinner, listening to music or, simply, in silence. Finally, at the very end, I read books, at the moment it is the novel "The Strangeness of the Mind" by Orhan Pamuk, which is, I believe, the last one translated into Macedonian that I have not read, so I am saving its pages little by little to read it. I prolong the pleasure it gives me. Always with a book, especially of this scale, it is easier to bear the insomnia that, especially in the summer, camps at home and not only there, I often take it with me wherever I travel...

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