“Zoki Poki” became a middle-aged man and there is still no one to replace him

The English have Oliver Twist, the Americans - Tom Sawyer, we have Zoki Poki. The book of Olivera Nikolova is a classic in the Macedonian literature and a childhood reference for all children in Macedonia. It is exactly this year (2013) that it celebrates half a century since it has been published. Neither then nor today is there a child which has not read the book about the naughty Zoki, whose friend Lydia calls him Poki.

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”.