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Pollitecon's
book Children of the Bird Goddess, which sold out recently, has now
been reprinted. First published in 1997, the book has won many readers
and admirers for its honest and heart-felt story of family life in Aegean
Macedonia and setting up a new life in Australia. The author, Kita Sapurma,
gives a woman's perspective on events that span over 100 years and the
lives of four generations of Macedonian women. Co-written with her daughter,
Pandora Petrovska, the book was one of the first autobiographies in
English of a woman from Aegean Macedonia. Kita Sapurma recently passed
away but has left a powerful and valuable gift for all Macedonians.
There is more information about the book 
Jim
is a Perth businessman who was born in Neret. In this interview he talks
about his plan to help develop the tourism potential of the village.
He has established an Airbnb home in Neret and among other plans he
has organized a tour group to visit the village and its region in 2020.
This will give the visitors a rare opportunity to experience a beautiful
and less well trodden part of the world and help bring work and economic
development for the local village people. The interview is 
The
latest play by Dushan Ristevski, Posledniot Makedonets/ The Last Macedonian,
was recently launched in Sydney. Pollitecon publisher Victor Bivell
gave a speech to help launch the play. Thank you to Vince Panov for
the video. The play and the speech cover the recent developments in
Macedonia from the Colour Revolution to the Prespa agreement, many social
issues and much more. The video of the speech is 
Banitsa
in the Maelstrom of the Wars 1903-1949 is now available. The book is
the English translation of Banitsa Lerinsko Vo Viorot Na Vojnite by
Atanas Katinovski. The translation is by Constantine Mallin, Biljana
Kuzmanovska and Valerie Sylvester. Banitsa was one of the biggest villages
in the Lerinsko region and before the Second World War had over 4,500
residents. For a time is was a political, cultural, trade and economic
centre. 
Prespa
in the past and present is the theme of the book Neunishtlivi Koreni
(Undestroyable Roots - Prespa Then and Now) by Mitre Kajchevski-Micho.
The book takes a detailed look at the 33 villages in the lower Prespa
region including the 16 villages that fell under Greek control in 1912-13.
The villages include Nivitsi, German, Robi, Orovo, Orovnik, Ail, Bukovnik,
Lok, Popli, Rudari, Opaa, Strkovo, Medovo, Vineni, Drobitishta and Grazhdeno
that are in Greece. It looks at eight villages in Macedonia and nine
in Albania. The book discusses the political, economic, cultural and
linguistic histories of the region and villages. The book is 
Author
Stojan Kochov says now that Greece has recognized Macedonia under its
new name it must also recognize the cultural genocide of the ethnic
Macedonians in Aegean Macedonia. In a short article on Cultural Genocide
in Greece, Mr Kochov says that Greece's non-recognition and denationalization
of the ethnic Macedonians in Greece meets the criteria for cultural
genocide as outlined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who in
1944 was the first to name and define genocide and cultural genocide.
He gives numerous examples. The article, in Macedonian, is 
The
book 10 + 1 Questions and Answers on the Macedonian Question discusses
10 common Greek nationalist positions on Macedonia and the Macedonian
identity. The Greek authors, Dimitris Christopoulos and Kostis Karpozilos,
say that "Dealing with the Macedonian identity as "nonexistent"
has entrapped Greek politics in an ineffective and unjust stance regarding
Macedonia's name. These positions "have been stereotypically repeated
for years – definitely since the early 1990s", but they are
myths and the book aims to show that they do not stand to reason. "Unfortunately,
Greek society has not taken daring steps of self-criticism and chooses
to cover up various traumatic incidents of its past, especially those
that it calls "national issues... For years, the Macedonian question
was the great collective censor and self-censor of Greek public life:
Repressed truths and the feeling of a secret locked away determined
the way in which Greek society dealt with what stood right before it,
but which it refused to see." The authors say "The wound is
gaping. It is festering and must be dealt with quickly. The longer we
leave it, the deeper it will go, poisoning coming generations."
Dimitris Christopoulos is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the
Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University in
Athens. Kostis Karpozilos is a historian, director of the Contemporary
Social History Archives (ASKI), and teaches at College Year in Athens
(CYA) and the Hellenic Open University. The book is in Macedonian and
is 
The
latest book by Canadian Macedonian author Risto Stefov is Macedonians
and the NOT so Civil War in Greece - The terrible decade 1939-1949.
The book is about "how the Macedonian people in Greek occupied
Macedonia were treated by the Greek authorities and by the Great Powers,
particularly by England, Russia and the United States". It looks
at the events of that "terrible decade and the deception perpetrated
by the Greek elite and by their patrons the English and Americans as
well as the Russians who used every means possible to fool the Macedonian
people to fight and die for their interests." The book discusses
Greek laws against the Macedonian people, various key agreements such
as The Plaka Protocol, The Lebanon Agreement, The Caserta Agreement,
The Varkiza Agreement, The Atlantic Charter, and some key personalities
such as Siantos and Zahariadis. The book is 
Macedonia's
Institute of National History's book Svedoshtva za Makedonskiot Identitet
(XVIII - XX Vek) or Testimonies for the Macedonian Identity (18th -
20th Centuries) has a substantial 385 pages of evidence, reports, statements
and quotes about the Macedonian identity. It starts with a 1751 decree
from Russian Empress Elisabeth Petrovna, the daughter of Peter the Great,
who clearly identifies the Macedonians as a separate people from other
Balkan peoples. It moves forward in time with several hundred other
statements that clearly identify the Macedonians. Many of these are
by famous and well-known people. The authors say these are "only
a part of the numerous documents contained in the archives and institutions
throughout the world, and in which the Macedonian identity is unambiguously
expressed or defined." The book is 
A
reminder that Canadian Macedonian Books has a great selection of Macedonian
books in English from around the world. These include non-fiction, fiction,
children's and cook books. Canadian Macedonian Books is run by Virginia
Evans, a former co-president of the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society
and founder of the Macedonian Film Festival in Toronto. Canadian Macedonian
Books is
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