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Gordana Icevska
An experienced journalist in her native Macedonia, Icevska has also studied journalism in Denmark, Hungary and, since her arrival in Canada in 2004, in Toronto. Along with Macedonian, she also speaks English, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian. Icevska was editor-in-chief of the Skopje-based Kapital magazine and has filed stories for such as media as the BBC World Service, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Time magazine and CNN Online. She has co-authored and edited several books on the Macedonian media and politics, and on Eastern Europe. Icevska continues with her journalistic activities in Canada, where she writes for local Toronto newspapers. She has also written several short stories and plans on writing a novel.

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I owe PEN Canada for whatever it is we call a home…. I was deeply traumatized when I crossed mountains to flee my invaded home. When I got here, the immigration office labelled me as ‘general labour’. I am nothing less than ‘highly-skilled labour’ - in the field of poetry.” Poet and PEN Canada writer in exile Saghi Ghahraman