K a t a (K a t i c a) K U L A V K O V A (b. 1951), PhD. She is a poet, theoretician of literature and literary essayist. Professor of Theory of Literature and Literary Hermeneutics at the Department of General and Comparative Literature on the Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Her poetry has been translated into many languages and represented in books, anthologies and selections of contemporary Macedonian poetry. She is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee of P.E.N. International, Editor in Chief of the international multilingual P.E.N E-Collection DIVERSITY (www.diversity.org.mk), founder of the comparatist E-Review Mirage (www.mirage.com.mk). Memberships: Macedonian P.E.N. Centre, World Comparatists Association, European Association of Culture (Venice), World Haiku Association.

Publications include: Poetry: Annunciation, 1975; The Act, 1978; Our Consonant, 1981; New Sweat, 1984; Neuralgic Spots (bilingual edition, Serbian/Macedonian) 1986; Thirst, 1989; 1989; Wild Thought (selection), 1989; Domino, 1993; Exorcising Evil, 1997; Via Lasciva (into French), 1998; Time Difference (into English), 1998; Preludium, 1998, World-In-Between, 2000, Expulsion du mal (into French, Ecrits des Forges), 2002, Dead Angle, 2004, Dorinte (Romanian translation, 2004), Mezdinen svjat (Bulgarian translation); Short stories/Poetic fiction: Enother Time & Autopsia (English translation, 2006), and several books of literary theory and hermeneutics (Figurative Speech and Macedonian Poetry, Pact and Impact, Stone of Temptation, Cahiers, Small Literary Theory, Theory of Literature, introduction, 2004, English translation, Hermeneutics of Identities). Editor of several anthologies of Macedonian short stories and Essays, and several readers (Dialogue of Interpretations, Theory of Intertextuality, Poetics and Hermeneutics, Balcan Image of the World, European research framework project Interpretations - Violence and Art). Personal website: www.kulavkova.org.mk

She has been translated some novels from French into Macedonian (Pascal Quignard, Aline Apostolska) and a few poetry selections and books (Safaa Fathy, Michel Deguy etc.).

Her art photographies have been published in a Diversity MAP of PEN International, on the web site www.diversity.org.mk and in a few books.

Katica (Kata) Kulavkova est née en 1951 à Veles. Elle est professeur de théorie et d'herméneutique littéraire à la Faculté de Philologie de Skopje, au Département de littérature générale et comparée. Elle était présidente du P.E.N. Centre Macédonien et présidente du Commité de traduction et droits liguistiques du P.E.N. International. Elle a séjourné plusieurs fois à Paris. Ses poèmes sont édités dans de nombreuses anthologies de la poésie macédonienne et traduits en plusieurs langues.

Œuvres publiées : Poésie : Annonciations (1975), Acte (1978), Notre consonne (1981), Nouvelle soie (1984), Points névralgiques (en serbe, 1986), Pensée sauvage (choix, 1989), Soifs, poèmes de transgression (1989), Temps autre (prose, 1989, Domino (1993), Expulsion du mal (1997), Time Difference (en anglais, 1998), Via lasciva (en français, 1998), Prélude, 1998; Entre-Monde, 2000 ;

Poétique, critique : Le discours figuratif et la poésie macédonienne (1984), Ecarts (1987), Les spécificités du lyrisme (1989), Envie de système (1992), Méthode et exégèse (1996), Pierre de tentation (1996), Cahiers (1997). Théorie de la littérature (introduction), 1999, Petite théorie littéraire, 2000, Poétique de la poésie (en serbe), 2001.

Rédaction : Les programmes poétiques dans la littérature macédonienne (1985), Moutons noirs (anthologie de nouvelles, 1996), Stratégies féministes (1998), Chambre secrète, anthologie de la nouvelle macédonienne du XX° siècle, 2000, Maquette, anthologie de la nouvelle macédonienne (courte) en serbe, Beograd, 2001;

Web-présentation (Internet):
Macedonian Short Stories: http://www.e-books.com.mk/cut,
http://www.mirage.com.mk,
Web site personnel : http://www.kulavkova.org.mk, etc.

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