Borislav Pavlovski, Ph. D.

full professor
Chair for Macedonian language and literature

Office: B-210
Telephone number: 01/6120-110
E-mail: borislav.pavlovski@ffzg.hr

Office hours: Tuesday 11:00 – 12:00


Borislav Pavlovski was born in Bjelovar on February 26th in 1950. He went to elementary and high school (Fourth General High School) in Zagreb, graduating in 1969. He received his university degree from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1974, with major in South Slavic languages and literatures and minor in philosophy. His master’s thesis was successfully defended in 1986 and his doctoral thesis in 1994. From 1975 to 1978 he held the position of a foreign correspondent for “Nova Makedonija“ in the Republic of Croatia. He was elected assistant of Macedonian language and literature in 1978 at the Chair for Macedonian language and literature of his home institution. He was promoted senior assistant in 1986, assistant professor in 1996, associate professor in 2001 and full professor in 2005. He has been head of the chair since 1986.

He was guest professor in Goteborg (the Kingdom of Sweden) and a long-standing part-time lecturer of universities in Osijek, Maribor (Republic of Slovenia), Zadar and Rijeka.

He has single-authored three scholarly books, one textbook (in collaboration), three anthologies (two of them single-authored), and two pocket-sized dictionaries in collaboration (Macedonian-Croatian and Croatian-Macedonian). He has published around 50 scientific papers and about 200 critical articles at home and abroad.

He has been a collaborator on two scientific research projects, home and international, and leader of three home and two international scientific research projects. He edited both single-handedly and in collaboration two journals of conference proceedings.

So far, he has translated from the Macedonian into Croatian 10 novels and 14 plays, 5 books of poetry, one book of scientific papers and essays, one book in literary history, one book in theory of literature, three books in historiography and one book on medicine.

He has supervised three doctoral candidates and a number of undergraduate and graduate students of Madeconian language and literature.

He was the programme assistant of the Zagreb School of Slavic Studies and president of the Croatian and Macedonian Society and the Croatian Philological Society. He has been a long-standing member of the Skopje “Kulturen život“and “Spekter“ magazines editorial committee. He is member of Croatian Writers’ Association, Matrix Croatica, Croatian Philological Society, and Croatian centre ITI-UNESCO, as well as honorary member of Macedonian Writers’ Association.

He was awarded Medal of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb for his scholarly and teaching work in 2000, and in 2001, he was honored with the Medal of St Paul the Apostle by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia. In 2008, he was bestowed honorary doctorate in philology (doctor honoris causa) by the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, and in 2013 he was a recipient of the international award for promoting Macedonian literature, the “Zlatni prsten“.

Bibliography:
B_PAVLOVSKI_bibliografija.doc