Take Six: Six Balkan Women Writers

Jordan Plevnes was born in 1953 in Macedonia. He writes plays, novels poetry and essays. His work has been translated into over 50 languages. His spiritual idealism is closely linked to the myth of the Balkans as the heart of Europe. Since 1988 he has lived in Paris. He was Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to France, Spain, Portugal and UNESCO. His plays R, The Fall of Albert Camus and Happiness is a New Idea in Europe received international recognition throughout Europe and the United States. His play The Eternal House will be featured in 2021 at the Macedonian National Theater in Skopje under the leadership of American experimental theater director Robert Wilson.

Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. Since 1991 he has been living in Berlin, Germany, where he works as a freelance translator of literature and the humanities. Firth translates from Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian. His best-received translations of recent years have been Robert Perisic's Our Man in Iraq, Andrej Nikolaidis's Till Kingdom Come, and Faruk Sehic's Quiet Flows the Una.