Tomislav Osmanli (1956) is a distinguished Macedonian
author - a play and screenplay writer, a media theoretic, prose writer,
film and theater critic and essayist. He is author of nine books. Osmanli
has written the first Macedonian books dedicated to the theory of the Seventh
(The Film and the Politics, 1981) and the Ninth art (Comics - a Scripture
of Human Image, 1987). His other books include: The Missing media (essays
on the civil urbanity, 1992), The Butterfly of the Childhood, (short nostalgic
stories, 1993) and Listening in a Deaf Time (political essays, 1994). His
stories have been published in two short story anthologies Skopje Stories
(1996) and A Day in Skopje (1998). He wrote the screenplay for the feature
film Angels of the Dumps (1997) - a human drama taking place in the East-European
post communist environment. He has written other feature screenplays as
well (Man Without Address; The Stars of '42; Skopje Reveries), short meter
film and TV documentaries. His theater work includes the satirical comedy
Salon Booms (1986), the two multimedia plays Memento for a City (1993)
and Mischief Shadows (1994), the chamber play Two in Eden (1995), the play
Lightning-bugs in the Night (1997), the children's play on the Nativity
The New King (1998) and the war farce Apocalyptic Comedy (1999) .
His holocaust story The Photograph of Aunt
Rachel won the First prize on the 1999 national competition of the Macedonian
Academy of Arts' and Sciences.
For his diverse author's work, Tomislav
Osmanli won numerous prizes.
More, on the Internet:
Angels of the Dumps
Two in Eden
Svetulki vo Nokjta
Clouds
The Boiling Pot Called Skopje