The novel “Variations for Ibn Pajko” by Olivera Nikolova was published in Moscow at the very beginning of September 2013, just a few days before the opening of the 26^th Moscow International Book Fair, the greatest literary fair in Russia. With this novel Russia participates in the project “Hundred Slavic Novels” realized by the Forum of Slavic Cultures. The publisher of the book is “Rudomino”.

In 2005, as a part of The International Seminar for Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture in Ohrid, I gave several  lectures, in my attempt to promote the recent success of the few Macedonian female prose authors as a kind of an insurgence of the female script in the Macedonian literature… Amidst the novels which have always provided the main focus of my study, Nikolova’s novel itself, with its title Adam’s Rib, was the only one that pointed out in an auto-referential manner the theme of the other, the woman, within the focus of the novelist perspective. In Macedonian literature, the publication of the short story collection Left Ventricle (2008)  represents an important prose release, which announces the female script in a new way: in the harmony and euphony of the represented world of women and the dominant style of narration, which seems to be interwoven with  the veil of all of the light’s beams that appear in the spiritual outlook of self-knowing and self-experiencing behind the close eyelids.