FOUNDING ASSEMBLY OF ACADEMIA BALKANICA EUROPEANA IN BUCHAREST 29 OCTOBER 2017
ACADEMIA BALKANICA EUROPEANA
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EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS
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Jordan Plevnes
President of Academia Balkanica Europeana
Jordan Plevnes (born 1953, in Sloeshtica, Demir Hisar) is a Macedonian playwright and diplomat, one of the most renowned and diverse authors, with a considerable number of titles in the literary genres of poetry, prose, drama, as well as essays. He is widely considered as an intellectual who animates the Macedonian spiritual heritage worldwide, and emphasizes the value of the Macedonian culture in the vaults of the European civilization, and Macedonia's position as a leader in emancipation and Europeanization in the Balkans.
He graduated on the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, and received his master's degree on the subject "Macedonian folk drama". From 1985-1988 he worked in the Institute for Macedonian Literature at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. He was editor of the publishing house "Misla" from 1980 to 1985.
Jordan Plevnes received numerous literary awards: The Award of the newspaper “Studentski zbor”, the Prize for best drama text at the 23rd MESS International Theatre Festival in Sarajevo, Extraordinary Award from the Theater festival “Sterijno pozorje”, and numerous international literary awards.
He is a member of the Macedonian Writers' Association, and he was its secretary of international relations from 1984 to 1986.
Plevnes has been living in Paris since 1988, where he has been teaching Macedonian Language and Literature at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, and later Interactions between Balkan Literatures. In addition, he has been teaching creative writing at European and American universities, University of Texas at Dallas, Yale University and Ors University in Paris.
Since 2011, he has been elected a Fellow professor of the Doctoral Studies at Pantheon Assas II University in Sorbonne, and holds a series of lectures for postgraduates and PhD students each year. His works has been published and performed in more than thirty languages on all continents. Some of the world's most important media outlets and international literary reviews, such as the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Mond, Le Figaro, Liberation, Literaturnaja Gazeta, Seiko Shimbun, have published articles about his work.
He is the president of the South East European Festivals in Paris and Berlin (SEE a Paris, SEEFF a Berlin), co-president of the French Film Festival in Ohrid, and founder of the International Theater Festival Actor Europe in Prespa.
In 2000, by a decree of the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski, Plevnes was appointed as an Ambassador of Macedonia to France, Spain, Portugal and UNESCO, and during his mandate, he managed to provide for the building of the Embassy of Macedonia in France, the building of the Macedonian Orthodox Church “St. Cyril and Methodius ”, as well as the marble landmark on the Raspail Boulevard, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the newspaper Le Mouvement Macedonien in Paris, the only one of its kind in European capitals.
At the end of his mandate and participation in the French Senate Symposium marking the 200th anniversary of Victor Hugo's birth, French Senate President Christian Ponce will address the words "Your Excellency Plevnes, with Your Spiritual Engagement you’ve managed to “macedonize” the whole of France.
In 2008, the French Republic honored Plevnes with the highest honor "Knight of the highest rank in literature and art", for his engagement in the development of culture and the friendly relations between France and Macedonia.
He is a professor at the International University Europa Prima - Skopje, which he founded in 2007, and he is its current president.
He is the Vice President of the UNESCO International Association for Dialogue among Civilizations. Jordan Plevnes writes in Macedonian and French.
Jordan Plevnes is author of numerous novels, plays and poetry books, of which most notable are: "Theory of Poison" (poetry, 1980), "Erigon" (drama, 1982), "Macedonicshe Zushtende" and "Yugoslav Antithesis" (drama, 1987), "R" (drama, 1987), " Besson's Dionysus (Study, 1989), "Free Hunt" (1989), "Underground Republic" (1990), "Godless" (1991), "Notre Femme de Paris" (1994), "Happiness is a New Idea in Europe" (1997), "The Last Man, The Last Woman" (1999), "The Last Day of Misirkov" (2003), "The Eighth World Miracle" (novel, 2005), "Killed poetry and patriotism" (poetry, 2011), Novel for Secret Book ”(2011)“ Eternal House ”(drama, 2013).
He is author of series of documentary movies about most significant persons of XX century, as Peter Brook, Yves Bonnefoy, Herbert Lottman, Nicolas Bouvier, Claude Lelouch, Charles Aznavour, Claudia Cardinale etc. He is author of the screenplay for the feature film “Secret book” (2006) with Jean Claude Carriere, and he recently finished the scripts for the new movies “Human revolution” and "Viva Goce - Viva Garibaldi".
In late 2013, the renovated Macedonian National Theater building was officially opened with the premiere of his play "Eternal House", directed by Dejan Projkovski, while in 2015, the Macedonian National Theater published an exclusive release of his playwright works ”Collected Drama".
In 2017, the publishing house "Arka" from Serbia publishes an anthology of Plevnes plays, with a preface "Play-Plevneš" by Boro Draskovic. The same year the famous Paris publisher Le Temps des Cerises published his "Collected Drama" with the foreword by the famous French writer Jacques Lacariere, entitled "Portrait of Plevnes in the Molière Theater".
In 2017, Jordan Plevnes has been elected as a full member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. His novel "Eighth World Wonder" was published and promoted in USA, by Plamen Press Washington in 2019. In the same year, his play "Global Comedy" had a world premiere in Satiric Theater in Sofia.
In 2021, Jordan Plevnes received the Grand Prix from Académie Française for lifetime achievement, on a proposition from University Pantheon Assas II Paris Sorbonne.
President of Academia Balkanica Europeana
Jordan Plevnes (born 1953, in Sloeshtica, Demir Hisar) is a Macedonian playwright and diplomat, one of the most renowned and diverse authors, with a considerable number of titles in the literary genres of poetry, prose, drama, as well as essays. He is widely considered as an intellectual who animates the Macedonian spiritual heritage worldwide, and emphasizes the value of the Macedonian culture in the vaults of the European civilization, and Macedonia's position as a leader in emancipation and Europeanization in the Balkans.
He graduated on the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, and received his master's degree on the subject "Macedonian folk drama". From 1985-1988 he worked in the Institute for Macedonian Literature at the Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski" in Skopje. He was editor of the publishing house "Misla" from 1980 to 1985.
Jordan Plevnes received numerous literary awards: The Award of the newspaper “Studentski zbor”, the Prize for best drama text at the 23rd MESS International Theatre Festival in Sarajevo, Extraordinary Award from the Theater festival “Sterijno pozorje”, and numerous international literary awards.
He is a member of the Macedonian Writers' Association, and he was its secretary of international relations from 1984 to 1986.
Plevnes has been living in Paris since 1988, where he has been teaching Macedonian Language and Literature at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, and later Interactions between Balkan Literatures. In addition, he has been teaching creative writing at European and American universities, University of Texas at Dallas, Yale University and Ors University in Paris.
Since 2011, he has been elected a Fellow professor of the Doctoral Studies at Pantheon Assas II University in Sorbonne, and holds a series of lectures for postgraduates and PhD students each year. His works has been published and performed in more than thirty languages on all continents. Some of the world's most important media outlets and international literary reviews, such as the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Mond, Le Figaro, Liberation, Literaturnaja Gazeta, Seiko Shimbun, have published articles about his work.
He is the president of the South East European Festivals in Paris and Berlin (SEE a Paris, SEEFF a Berlin), co-president of the French Film Festival in Ohrid, and founder of the International Theater Festival Actor Europe in Prespa.
In 2000, by a decree of the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Boris Trajkovski, Plevnes was appointed as an Ambassador of Macedonia to France, Spain, Portugal and UNESCO, and during his mandate, he managed to provide for the building of the Embassy of Macedonia in France, the building of the Macedonian Orthodox Church “St. Cyril and Methodius ”, as well as the marble landmark on the Raspail Boulevard, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the newspaper Le Mouvement Macedonien in Paris, the only one of its kind in European capitals.
At the end of his mandate and participation in the French Senate Symposium marking the 200th anniversary of Victor Hugo's birth, French Senate President Christian Ponce will address the words "Your Excellency Plevnes, with Your Spiritual Engagement you’ve managed to “macedonize” the whole of France.
In 2008, the French Republic honored Plevnes with the highest honor "Knight of the highest rank in literature and art", for his engagement in the development of culture and the friendly relations between France and Macedonia.
He is a professor at the International University Europa Prima - Skopje, which he founded in 2007, and he is its current president.
He is the Vice President of the UNESCO International Association for Dialogue among Civilizations. Jordan Plevnes writes in Macedonian and French.
Jordan Plevnes is author of numerous novels, plays and poetry books, of which most notable are: "Theory of Poison" (poetry, 1980), "Erigon" (drama, 1982), "Macedonicshe Zushtende" and "Yugoslav Antithesis" (drama, 1987), "R" (drama, 1987), " Besson's Dionysus (Study, 1989), "Free Hunt" (1989), "Underground Republic" (1990), "Godless" (1991), "Notre Femme de Paris" (1994), "Happiness is a New Idea in Europe" (1997), "The Last Man, The Last Woman" (1999), "The Last Day of Misirkov" (2003), "The Eighth World Miracle" (novel, 2005), "Killed poetry and patriotism" (poetry, 2011), Novel for Secret Book ”(2011)“ Eternal House ”(drama, 2013).
He is author of series of documentary movies about most significant persons of XX century, as Peter Brook, Yves Bonnefoy, Herbert Lottman, Nicolas Bouvier, Claude Lelouch, Charles Aznavour, Claudia Cardinale etc. He is author of the screenplay for the feature film “Secret book” (2006) with Jean Claude Carriere, and he recently finished the scripts for the new movies “Human revolution” and "Viva Goce - Viva Garibaldi".
In late 2013, the renovated Macedonian National Theater building was officially opened with the premiere of his play "Eternal House", directed by Dejan Projkovski, while in 2015, the Macedonian National Theater published an exclusive release of his playwright works ”Collected Drama".
In 2017, the publishing house "Arka" from Serbia publishes an anthology of Plevnes plays, with a preface "Play-Plevneš" by Boro Draskovic. The same year the famous Paris publisher Le Temps des Cerises published his "Collected Drama" with the foreword by the famous French writer Jacques Lacariere, entitled "Portrait of Plevnes in the Molière Theater".
In 2017, Jordan Plevnes has been elected as a full member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. His novel "Eighth World Wonder" was published and promoted in USA, by Plamen Press Washington in 2019. In the same year, his play "Global Comedy" had a world premiere in Satiric Theater in Sofia.
In 2021, Jordan Plevnes received the Grand Prix from Académie Française for lifetime achievement, on a proposition from University Pantheon Assas II Paris Sorbonne.
Aleksandar Prokopiev
General secretary of Academia Balkanica Europeana
Aleksandar Prokopiev is a PhD in comparative literature and literary theory working in the Institute of Macedonian Literature at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev was born in 1953 in Skopje, then the capital of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, a constituent country of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After his graduation in 1977 at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, General and Comparative literature department, he finished his postgraduate education in 1982 also in Belgrade and in Sorbonne, France.
He worked in several domestic and foreign magazines, for example as a member of the editorial board of Orient Express (Oxford, UK) and World Haiku (Kyoto, Japan), and he wrote screenplays for film, theatre, TV shows, radio dramas and comic books. His works were translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and other languages.
Aleksandar Prokopiev was also an active musician. While studying in Belgrade he played with the Yugoslav rock band Idoli, an eminent act of the former Yugoslav new wave scene. It is claimed that he wrote the famous Idoli's song "Retko te viđam sa devojkama", however he is not credited on the record itself (Vlada Divljan is credited as the author instead). In Macedonia, Prokopiev was a member of the notable band Usta na Usta which was active during the 1980s. Its recordings were released by the music production branch of the national Macedonian Radio-Television.
Prokopiev is author of several books including: The Young Master of the Game (short stories, 1983), Sailing South (short stories, 1986), A Sermon on the Snake (stories, 1992), Ars amater-ia (stories, 1998), Image which rolls (haiku, 1998), Anti-instructions for personal use (poetry, 2000), Postmodern Babylon (essays, 2000), The Man With Four Watches (2003), Homunculus (fairy tales for adults, 2015), translated into English by Istros Books in 2012, winner of the Balkanika award).
General secretary of Academia Balkanica Europeana
Aleksandar Prokopiev is a PhD in comparative literature and literary theory working in the Institute of Macedonian Literature at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia. He is also notable as a writer, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.
Aleksandar Prokopiev was born in 1953 in Skopje, then the capital of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, a constituent country of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After his graduation in 1977 at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, General and Comparative literature department, he finished his postgraduate education in 1982 also in Belgrade and in Sorbonne, France.
He worked in several domestic and foreign magazines, for example as a member of the editorial board of Orient Express (Oxford, UK) and World Haiku (Kyoto, Japan), and he wrote screenplays for film, theatre, TV shows, radio dramas and comic books. His works were translated in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and other languages.
Aleksandar Prokopiev was also an active musician. While studying in Belgrade he played with the Yugoslav rock band Idoli, an eminent act of the former Yugoslav new wave scene. It is claimed that he wrote the famous Idoli's song "Retko te viđam sa devojkama", however he is not credited on the record itself (Vlada Divljan is credited as the author instead). In Macedonia, Prokopiev was a member of the notable band Usta na Usta which was active during the 1980s. Its recordings were released by the music production branch of the national Macedonian Radio-Television.
Prokopiev is author of several books including: The Young Master of the Game (short stories, 1983), Sailing South (short stories, 1986), A Sermon on the Snake (stories, 1992), Ars amater-ia (stories, 1998), Image which rolls (haiku, 1998), Anti-instructions for personal use (poetry, 2000), Postmodern Babylon (essays, 2000), The Man With Four Watches (2003), Homunculus (fairy tales for adults, 2015), translated into English by Istros Books in 2012, winner of the Balkanika award).
SKOPJE DECLARATION At a time when leading European nations are reacting to their own internal problems by looking inwards and endangering the whole project of a European Union, there is an opportunity and a duty for smaller countries to pick up the torch and carry it forward. In this context, the countries of South-Eastern Europe – and in particular: Macedonia – have a federating role to play. For too long, the Balkans were the theatre of conflicts due to political disagreements. Today, the peoples of this region have a common aspiration: to create a European family of nations based on shared cultural values, not on economic and commercial rivalries which are the inevitable consequence of the treaties signed so far. We call for a cultural awakening of Europe, for clear statements of the values we all share, for a Parliament with real powers and for the dissolution of the often self-contradictory bureaucratic stratification which has impeded the construction of a true political Union. In this respect, the European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters supports establishing a new model in which our cultural heritage will provide the real link between nations. We are approaching the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which called on free peoples to unite around the great European project. We recall the famous phrase of Jean Monnet on the need to rebuild the European Union on a cultural basis. This is what we have aimed for in Skopje by bringing together eminent researchers and artists representing ten countries of the region to found the European Academy of the Balkans. The European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters and the European Academy of the Balkans together support the project of a new European construction based on shared humanistic and cultural values. “The Balkans are at the heart of Europe”
Signed in Skopje on 21/02/2017
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Jean-Patrick Connerade President of the European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters
Jordan Plevnes Author, Rector of the University of Audiovisual Arts of Skopje, Member of the European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters Alexandre Prokopiev Author, Skopje |
Ion Caramitru OBE
Former Minister of Culture of Romania, President of the Academia Balkanika Europeana Svetlana Broz Author and film director Director of Gariwo Vladislav Bajac Author, novelist and poet, Geo poetika, Beograd |
Jasmila Zbanic
Film director Marina Finci Painter and graphical artist Gradimir Gojer Author, theatre director and poet All from Sarajevo Nicolas Wieers Director Balkan Trafik Festival Brussels |
Branislav Micunovic
Former Minister of Culture of Montenegro Alek Popov Novelist, Sofia Hristo Boytchev Playwright, Sofia Atanasis Vistonitis Author, Athens Bashkin Shehu Writer, Tirana Vaso Tole Composer, Tirana |