Underground Apple

English poetry book by BORCHE PANOV. Borche Panov was born on September 27, 1961 in Radovish, The Republic of North Macedonia. He graduated from the ''Sts. Cyril and Methodius'' University of Skopje in Macedonian and South Slavic Languages (1986). He has been a member of the "Macedonian Writers' Association" since 1998. He has published: poetry: "What did Charlie Ch. See from the Back Side of the Screen" (1991), "Cyclone Eye" (1995), "Stop, Charlie" (2002), "Tact" (2006), "The Riddle of Glass" (2008), "Basilica of Writing" (2010), "Mystical Supper" (2012), "Vdah" (The Breathe of Life) (2014), "Human Silences" (2016), "Uhania" (2017), "Shell" (2018); and several essays and plays: "The Fifth Season of the Year" (2000), "The Doppelgänger Town" (2011), "A Dead-end in the Middle of an Alley" (2002), "Homo Soapiens" (2004), "Catch the Sleep-walker" (2005), "Split by its own Nose" (2006), and "Summertime Cinema" (2007). He has also poetry books published in other languages: "Particles of Hematite" (2016 - in Macedonian and Bulgarian language, published in Bulgaria), "Vdah" (2017 - in Slovenian, published in Slovenia), "Balloon Shaving" (2018 - Serbian, published in Serbia), "Fotostiheza" ("Photopoesis, 2019 - Bulgarian, published in Bulgaria), "Blood that Juggles with 80000 Thoughts" (2021 in Croatian, published in Croatia), "Underground Apple" in Arabic language published in United Arab Emirates by Rawashen Publishing House. His 12th book "A Room of my Time Zones" is about to be published by the most famous publishing house in North Macedonia, "Matica" Publishing with the Support of the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia. His poetry was published in a number of anthologies, literary magazines and journals both at home and abroad, and his works are translated into English, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, French, Catalonian, Mongolian, Uzbek, Albanian, Romanian, Polish, Italian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Danish language. Panov works as a Counselor for Culture and Education at the municipality of Radovish, and he is also Arts Coordinator for the "International Karamanov's Poetry Festival", held in Radovish annually (the first edition of the festival was in 1967). He has won several literary awards such as: Premio Mondiale "Tulliola- Renato Filippelli" in Italy for his book "Balloon Shaving" (2021), International Award of Excellence "City of Galateo-Antonio De Ferrariis" (Italy, Rome, 2021).