WHEN TO COME TO MACEDONIA?

Struga Poetry Evenings ( 15 July )

STRUGA POETRY EVENINGS (SVE) (MACEDONIAN: СТРУШКИ ВЕЧЕРИ НА ПОЕЗИЈАТА, СВП; TR. STRUŠKI VEČERI NA POEZIJATA, SVP) IS AN INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED POETRY FESTIVAL HELD ANNUALLY IN STRUGA, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA. DURING THE SEVERAL DECADES OF ITS EXISTENCE, THE FESTIVAL HAS AWARDED ITS MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE GOLDEN WREATH, TO SOME OF THE MOST NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL POETS, INCLUDING: MAHMOUD DARWISH, W. H. AUDEN, JOSEPH BRODSKY, ALLEN GINSBERG, BULAT OKUDZHAVA, PABLO NERUDA, EUGENIO MONTALE, LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR, ARTUR LUNDKVIST, HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER, NICHITA STÃNESCU, TED HUGHES, MAKOTO OOKA, MIROSLAV KRLEŽA, YEHUDA AMICHAI, SEAMUS HEANEY AND DOMESTIC AUTHORS SUCH AS BLAŽE KONESKI. THROUGH THE PAST 50 YEARS THE OHRID SUMMER FESTIVAL GAINED ITS AFFIRMATION AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA. ALONGSIDE WITH THAT, IT SUCCEEDED IN KEEPING THE PACE WITH THE EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CULTURAL FLOW, RECKONING AMONG THE PRIVILEGED AND MOST IMPORTANT FESTIVALS IN THE WORLD.