The first digital work of Zharko Kujundjiski published under a Creative Commons license

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The first digital work of Zharko Kujundjiski published under a Creative Commons license

Monday, 01 March 2010 17:19

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Last week, the book “Andrew, love and other inconveniences” of literary artist Zharko Kujundjiski enriched the portal for creative content available under the Creative Commons license. The book was first published in a printed version in 2004, but a year later all copies were sold out, and as the author says, “This is a second chance.”
The book “Andrew, love and other inconveniences” is comprised of a play with the same title, and two other plays; "Third door" and "Virgins from the east are dreaming about sex and/or love". Each of the plays features specific combinations of actors and a different drama poetry: from a realistic discourse, through a drama of the absurd, to postmodern theatre. The electronic work is available for download under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Macedonia 2.5 license.

The author says that he had one practical and one less practical reason for publishing the work under Creative Commons. "The practical reason is that for more than four years, I don’t have a single copy of this book, which was published in 2004, and in the meantime, a lot of people wanted to read it. So this is its second publishing. The not so practical reason is that each author, same as I, doesn’t want to jealously keep his books at home, and wants to always give them new chances and new forms of promotion and actuality”.

He chose the Creative Commons license because he believes that this way of publishing has clearly defined rules and conditions for further dissemination of the work. He believes that his future works will also be published under the CC license.

Except the work “Andrew, love and other inconveniences”, Kujundjiski has also published the novels: “Spectator”, “America” and “Lost-Found”, the collection of short stories “13”, and he has translated the novel “Breakfast at Tiffany's” by Truman Capote, from English to Macedonian, as well as the film script for “Pulp Fiction” together with Zlatko Kujundzhiski. He won the “November 13" Award in 2003, and has won twenty other awards in various competitions for best drama text, short story and essay.

Last year, Zharko Kujundjiski received a master’s degree from the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”. He has worked as a journalist in the Dnevnik daily, editor in Mlad Borec and Loza, columnist for the Utrinski newspaper and film critic in several newspapers and magazines from the country and abroad.

He is currently a columnist in Dnevnik, and he is also the founder and editor of the electronic magazine “Reper” which has a critical approach to the overall Macedonian culture and art.

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