Elena Karpuzovska

Elena Karpuzovska holds a Master’s degree in General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies from the ‘Blaže Koneski’ Faculty of Philology at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. In 2022, she completed her undergraduate studies at the Department of General and Comparative Literature with a thesis devoted to the symbolist and modernist characteristics of the poetry of the Macedonian poet Aleksandar (Aco) Karamanov. In 2026, she completed her master’s studies in Comparative Literature with a thesis dedicated to the mythical phenomenon of childhood in the work of the Macedonian poet Vlada Urošević and the French poet Alain Bosquet. She is the author of a book dedicated to Karamanov – Детето Орфеј: Митскиот образ на Ацо Караманов (The Child Orpheus: The Mythical Image of Aco Karamanov, 2024). She translates poetry from Russian and French. In the Macedonian literary journal Stremež she has published her own translations of poetry by Nikolai Gumilev, Sergei Yesenin, Marina Tsvetaeva and Alfred de Musset. She has published her literary and scholarly work in the journals Slavic studies, Spektar, Context, Journal of Contemporary Philology and Knjiženstvo. Some of her studies discuss aspects of the works of Dostoevsky, Ivo Andrić, Maximilian Voloshin, Nikolai Gumilev, Fyodor Sologub, Mikhail Lermontov, André Gide, E. T. A. Hoffmann, etc. Her literary research focuses on the comparative study of 19th and 20th century Macedonian and European literature, philosophy, mythology, aspects of poetic and narrative imagination and fantastic literature.