Full professor

He is the author of numerous prefaces in translations of important philosophical works (Plato, Pseudo-Longinus, A. Baumgarten, S. Freud, M. De Unamuno, A. Camus, R. Williams, E. Cassirer, H. G. Gadamer), but also in translations of literary works (Plaut, W. Blake, J. Joyce, J. Brodsky, FM Ford, J. Steinbeck) and his scientific work includes over three hundred and fifty (350) bibliographic units – books and texts published in the country and abroad. He conducted the first Macedonian translation of the poetry of William Blake “Songs of Innocence and Experience” (1988), Joseph Brodsky’s “Part of Speech” (1988) and James Joyce’s “Chamber Music” (1993). At the same time, he participated in a number of scientific symposia, gatherings and debates, in the country and abroad, and through interviews and reviews, mainly of a professional nature, was featured in the pages of several daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. He also participated in a number of TV shows of a professional nature dedicated to philosophy (aesthetics) and the individual arts.

Ivan Djeparoski is the author of 30 books – fourteen in the field of philosophy, aesthetics and art criticism, three philosophical and aesthetic anthologies, three literary-theoretical selections (one of which has been translated into six foreign languages), seven poetry collections and three poetic anthologies. He is also a translator, mainly from English: William Blake, James Joyce, Joseph Brodsky, Carol Ann Duffy. His poetry is represented in a number of anthologies of Macedonian poetry in the country and abroad and selections of his poetry in special books have been published in Bulgarian (2006), English (2011, 2012 and 2017), in Romanian (2012), in Serbian (2018) and in Albanian (2020). His book in the field of aesthetics “The Work of Art” was translated into Albanian in 2018. His essays and poetry have been translated into twenty languages ​​worldwide.

He has won several professional and national awards: “Mlad Borec” – for the philosophical work “Argo sails Down the Axios” (1984), “Dimitar Mitrev” – for the aesthetic work “In Search of Lost Totality” (1993), “Grigor Prlichev” – for the translation of the book by James Joyce “Chamber Music” (1993), “Paradigm” – for the overall essay opus (2009) and the most important poetry award in our country “Brakja Miladinovci” – for the poetic work “The Light of Mount Athos” (2016 ). He is a member of the Philosophical Society of Macedonia, the Writers’ Association of Macedonia and the Macedonian PEN Center – where he was its secretary for three terms (1999-2001; 2008-2014). He was also a member of the council of “Ohrid Summer Festival”, “Struga Poetry Evenings” and “Racin Meetings” and was a member of several juries in the field of literature in the country and abroad (“Brakja Miladinovci”, “Aco Shopov”, “Stale Popov”, “Dimitar Mitrev”, “Grigor Prlichev”, “Utrinski Vesnik – novel of the year”, “Balkanika”). He was also a member of the editorial boards of the journals: “Third Program”, “Views”, “Philosophical Tribune”, “Philosophy” and editor-in-chief of “The Macedonian PEN Review”. From the mid-90s of the last century to the middle of the first decade of this century he was the scientific secretary of the macro project of MANU “History of Culture of Macedonia” led by academician Georgi Stardelov, and now participates in the editing of the last volumes of this project dedicated to contemporary Macedonian literature (“Epoch Blaze Koneski”).

Ivan Djeparoski participated in numerous symposia and scientific debates in the country and abroad, had his own poetic portraits and group poetry performances in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Turkey, and has managed and participated in a number of scientific projects in the field of philosophy, culture, literature and art. Participated in the project at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts “Interpretive methods (literary hermeneutics)” under the direction of academician Katica Kulavkova, currently collaborates in the macro project of “History of the culture of Macedonia”, and participates as a co-author (together with Ana Dimishkovska) in the preparation of “Terminology in the field of philosophy” (2018-2021) within the macro project of MANU “Macedonian Terminology” under the direction of Academician Vitomir Mitevski. He is also a member of the Dean’s Board of the Faculty of Philosophy.