Zvonko Taneski (born 12 March 1980, Skopje) is a Macedonian
and Slovak poet, literary critic, university professor in Slovakia and
translator. He studies General and Comparative literature and was graduated from
the Faculty of Philology of Sv. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. In
2007 he defended his PhD. thesis on “Theory and history of Slovak literature”
at the Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Science on Comenius University
in Bratislava. He worked as an independent researcher at the Institute of World
Literature in Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (2007–2008). In 2011,
the Commission for assessing scientific qualification of Slovak Academy of
Science acknowledged his scientific qualification level IIa (senior researcher)
and in the same year he received a habilitation at the Faculty of Foreign Languages
FON University in Skopje, where he worked from 2011 to 2014. He worked at the Research
Institute on Cultural Heritage of Constantine and Methodius in the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra from 2007 to
2011 and at the same workplace acts as an assistant professor (2014–2015). From
September 2015 he works as an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Philology
in the Faculty of Arts at the Comenius University in Bratislava. Research activities:
Comparative Slavonic studies and Balkan Linguistic and Literary studies. Author
of six books of poetry: “Opened doors” (1995, Kuboa), “The Choir of Rotten
Leaves” (2000, Matica Makedonska), “The Ridge” (2003, Magor), „Chocolate in
portfolio” (2010, Blesok), “Necking without warranty card” (2012, Kočo Racin)
and “Waiting history” (2016, Antolog). His poems has been translated into numerous
languages and published in the national literary periodicals, as well as in the
foreign ones.