Slobodan Vuksanović is a poet, essayist, translator and former Serbian politician, who served as Minister of Education and Sport in the Government of Serbia from 2004 to 2007.
Goran Petrović is a Serbian writer.
The Manaki brothers, Yanaki and Milton, were photography and cinema pioneers of the Balkan Peninsula and the Ottoman Empire. They were the first to bring a film camera and create a motion picture in the city of Manastir, an economic and cultural center of Ottoman Rumelia. Their first film, The Weavers, was a 60-second documentary of their grandmother spinning and weaving; this is regarded as the first motion picture shot in the Balkans. The Manaki brothers used a 35 mm Urban Bioscope camera that Yanaki imported from London in 1905. Yanaki and Milton filmed documentaries about various aspects of life in the city of Manastir.
Yitzhak Ben Ner is an Israeli writer, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. He has also hosted and edited radio and TV programs.
The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on "Secret Book", a real mystical book written by the Bogomils with Glagolitic letters.
Marko Vidojković is Serbian novelist of the younger generation, distinguished for his "in-your-face", punkish attitude both in his novels and in public appearances.
Balkan Insight is a website of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), that focuses on news, analysis, commentary and investigative reporting from southeast Europe. It is run by journalists in southeast Europe—the Balkans—including BIRN regional director Gordana Igric, an international award-winner for her reporting on human rights abuses and war crimes.
Efstratios Stamatopoulos was a Greek writer. He is known for writing novels, novellas, and short stories under the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis. He is associated with the "Generation of the '30s". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Vlado Maleski was a Yugoslav Macedonian writer, communist activist, publisher and revolutionary. He published several novels and short stories and was the author of the Macedonian national anthem "Denes nad Makedonija" and of the script for the first Macedonian movie, "Frosina".
Petre Mito Andreevski was a famous Macedonian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright.
Vlado Goreski – Rafik is a scenographer, graphic artist and designer of theatre posters. He finished secondary school in Bitola, and he graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy – Skopje, Department History of Art at 1981. He has studied at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1980 he began to volunteer, and in 1981 he was employed as painter-artist at the National Theatre Bitola. In 1982 he was employed in Institute, Museum and Gallery in Bitola as curator of contemporary art.
Kaygusuz Abdal (1341-1444) was a Turkish folk poet of the 14th century.
Balkan Is Not Dead is a 2012 Macedonian film.
Dr. Ana Stojanoska, born 22 November 1977 in Prilep, Macedonia is a theatre researcher and writer.
Fanula Papazoglu was a Yugoslav and Serbian classical scholar, epigrapher and academic. She was an expert in Ancient history of the Balkans. She founded the Centre for Ancient Epigraphy and Numismatics in 1970.
Luan Arif Starova is an Albanian writer of Macedonian origin who lives in Macedonia. He has published his works both in Albanian and in Macedonian; he is said to usually first write his texts in Macedonian, and later translate them into Albanian.
Cezar Papacostea was a Romanian classicist and translator.
Talat Xhaferi is a Macedonian politician and Speaker of the Parliament of Macedonia. He was also the former Minister of Defense.
Ag Apolloni is an Albanian writer, poet, playwright, scholar and essayist. He is a professor at the University of Prishtina. His literary works are distinguished for their dramatic dimension, philosophical treatment and critical attitude towards history, politics and society.
