Rumena Bužarovska (1981, Skopje, North Macedonia) is a writer, literary translator and educator. The author of the novel Tony (2024) and four volumes of short stories translated into more than fifteen languages, the stories from My Husband and I’m Not Going Anywhere have received wide critical acclaim and have been adapted into six stage productions in Europe. She is the author of two non-fiction books: the essays Next to God, America (2024) and a study on humor in contemporary American and Macedonian short fiction (2012). Bužarovska is also a literary translator from English into Macedonian, having translated authors such as J.M Coetzee, Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote and Flannery O’Connor. She is co-initiator and co-organizer of the PeachPreach women’s storytelling event in North Macedonia, co-host of the feminist Radio Mileva podcast and columnist for the regional Velike Priče magazine. She teaches American literature and translation at the State University in Skopje.
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