Aleksandar
Prokopiev is a
short story writer and essayist. Born 24 February 1953, in
Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia. Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature and Theory of Literature. Works at the Institute of
Macedonian Literature in Skopje. Works: The Young
Master of the Game (short stories, 1983), ...or...
(short stories, 1986), Sailing South (short
stories, 1986), A Sermon on the Snake (stories,
1992), Was Kalimah a Post-Modernist? (essays,
1994), Fairytale on the road (essays, 1996),
Let's make a movie together (stories for children,
1997), Ars amator-ia (stories, 1998),
Image which rolls (haiky, 1998),
Anti-instructions for personal use (poetical diary,
2000), Postmodern Babylon (essays, 2000). He
tried his skills at scenarios for stage projects, comic
strips, quiz-shows, texts for rock-and-roll songs,
feuilletons, translations and radio adaptations.
This is
Aleksandar's first appearance in Sketchbook.
