Igor Angjelkov

Igor Angjelkov, born 1974, graduated at the Interdisciplinary Journalism Studies, and completed his master’s degree in Media and Communications at the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law – Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He is actively engaged in thе periodicals with many critiques and reviews in the fields of literature, music, film… and since 2019 he publishes all his essays and reviews on his own website „herojnaedenden.mk“.

Angjelkov is known for his film commentary in the media as an author of the film radio show “REDRUM” on Kanal 103 ever since 1997 and of the film magazine “Filmoposlis” on TV Telma (2003-2014). So far, he has been a member of the jury at several domestic and international film festivals, and since 2018 he is the program selector of the “KineNova” Debut Film Festival in Skopje. He has four journalistic works in the field of film art: “Film.mkd” (2015), for which he received the “Mito Hadjivasilev Jasmin” State Prize for Journalism in 2016, “Film city” (2018), “Filmotopia” (2022) and “Film eye” (2025).

In the last twenty years, as co-owner and editor in the “Ili-Ili” publishing house, he openly participates and creates the literary scene in Macedonia. His official debut as a writer was in 2006 with the short story collection “Meek stories” (2006), which was the first publication from a domestic author in the PROaZA edition, and whose stories were published in a few literary magazines in the Balkans. Furthermore, his novels “Off-road” (2010) and “Photo sintesys” (2013) had an excellent widespread reception and had re-edition. In the “pandemic” 2020, his novel “Shrapnel” was published, his new collection of short stories “Double Exposure“ in 2022, followed by the novels “Mina” (2023) and “Vetrilishte” (2024). In 2025, he republished the first three books in one edition, as well as the first poetry collection “November”.

He is a member of the Society of Writers of Macedonia, Macedonian PEN-centre and the International Association of Film Critics FIPRESCI.