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An Interview With Meto Jovanovski

An Interview With Meto Jovanovski AN INTERVIEW WITH METO JOVANOVSKI Meto Jovanovski was interviewed in Skopje, Macedonia, dur- ing April 1987 by Jeffrey Folks. JF: Let's talk about Cousins. That's the first Macedonian novel to be translated into English. How would that work appeal espe- cially to American readers? MJ: Well, I don't know what the success of the book will be, since it was published at the end of January this year. The publisher sent me a couple of short reviews, which are all positive, and I got a letter from the publisher himself in which he is glad that the novel has such good reaction. He hopes to sell more copies, which is good for me too! I myself am curious how the American audi- ence would accept a novel written by someone who is not known at all on the continent, and a writer who comes from a small coun- try which is called Macedonia, a novel which is concerned with problems which are not familiar to the American reader. So it is a question to which I am expecting an answer too. JF: That was another question which I had-the background of the novel. It involves a lot of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Europe Brill

An Interview With Meto Jovanovski

Southeastern Europe , Volume 12 (1): 132 – Jan 1, 1985

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1985 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0094-4467
eISSN
1876-3332
DOI
10.1163/187633385X00051
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AN INTERVIEW WITH METO JOVANOVSKI Meto Jovanovski was interviewed in Skopje, Macedonia, dur- ing April 1987 by Jeffrey Folks. JF: Let's talk about Cousins. That's the first Macedonian novel to be translated into English. How would that work appeal espe- cially to American readers? MJ: Well, I don't know what the success of the book will be, since it was published at the end of January this year. The publisher sent me a couple of short reviews, which are all positive, and I got a letter from the publisher himself in which he is glad that the novel has such good reaction. He hopes to sell more copies, which is good for me too! I myself am curious how the American audi- ence would accept a novel written by someone who is not known at all on the continent, and a writer who comes from a small coun- try which is called Macedonia, a novel which is concerned with problems which are not familiar to the American reader. So it is a question to which I am expecting an answer too. JF: That was another question which I had-the background of the novel. It involves a lot of

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Published: Jan 1, 1985

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