Borjan jovanovski wikipedia

Borjan Jovanovski was born in Skopje in 1966 when Macedonia belonged to socialist Yugoslavia.

Borjan jovanovski wikipedia

Like many ex-Yugoslavs of his generation who grew up in well-established urban families, he describes his childhood as “quiet, secure and happy.” His mother was a journalist and translator, his father a known writer. Borjan recalls that the proceeds of a single book allowed his father to buy a new car.

The family was able to avoid the grey socialist housing complexes and afford a house with a green backyard in the outskirts of the city near Vodno, Skopje’s landmark mountain. While Yugoslav citizens from poorer regions went to Western Europe to earn money, intellectual urbanites like the Jovanovskis travelled there for sightseeing and pleasure.

As Yugoslavia’s economic and political problems became increasingly apparent in the 1980s, Borjan experienced personal difficulties with the federal state.

At the time he was still a teenager and the drummer of the Mac