The last novel of Olivera Nikolova published by Matica Makedonska is the winner of the Stale Popov Award, given by the Writers Association of Macedonia for the year 2015.

"The Velvet Shroud" is provocative, courageous, incredibly exciting, playful beyond limits, masterfully written and "awkwardly"/unusually structured prose, which, from a point of genre could be best qualified as "novel-in progress". Umberto Eco would say: open work. Macedonian literature has not yet produced prose of this radical genre, prose whose superior narrative succeeds to play exactly with the most important: with the cursed and fundamental aesthetic fraction fiction/faction. In this "open novel" its faction, represented by the main characters - eight historically and juridically authentic "women-murderers" who lived and killed between the 17th and the 21 st century, is the least relevant. The only relevant is its "fictionality", the seductive imagination of its writer who created this mesmerizing LITERARY ARTWORK. With this book, Olivera Nikolova, author of more than twenty books, winner of a number of most prestigious awards, a lady in her best years, a woman of integrity, a writer with a name and high profile, once again confirms her understandable status of La Grande Dame of Macedonian literature.

(The jury of the 2015 Stale Popov Award - Jelena Luzhina, Blazhe Minevski and Ivan Chapovski) 

The novel "Little House" by Olivera Nikolova was published in Serbian by "Arka" Smederevo, translated by the renowned poet, essay writer and interpreter Liljana Steik, 

"The novel Little House by Olivera Nikolova focuses above all on the psychological turmoil and the existential crisis of a woman who is not coping well with her own life as well as the life of a devastated and boiling society in transition" says the critic Tatjana Lazarevik-Miloshevik. "The dynamic, rhetorically effectively built narrational perspective makes the reader a part of the world of the novel and a useful interlocutor in the plot that covers elements of different genres: this novel is both love, both social, in a sense also crime or novel of secrets. The novel is a realistic image of the conditions seen in the mirror of transition all countries of former Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, USSR went through..."

"Dnevnik“, February 17, 2016