About

STRANGE FOREST publishing GROUP

STRANGE FOREST PUBLISHING GROUP from Skopje, N. Macedonia, is a group of two publishing houses:

1. ID-CONCEPT / STRANGE FOREST

2. STRANGE FOREST JUNIOR

Our mission is to deliver high-quality books to Macedonian public, especially to children and youth, promoting the best children’s authors and illustrators, renown writers and poets in the country and translating important books to Macedonian.

We aim to promote quality books, noted and recognized by the Macedonian public and the media. We have won numerous Macedonian book awards or we’ve been nominated/shortlisted for these awards (2 times finalists for Novel of the Year award, 3 times first prize for best children’s book between two bookfairs, etc)., as well as international acknowledgements such as “White Ravens”.

Many of the books by domestic authors are already translated in several languages. We focus on promoting Macedonian renown award-winning authors and illustrators, and we work with the best and award-winning translators in their fields.


Timeline

In 2013, ID-Concept was established, as photography, illustration and design studio. In 2018 we started publishing our first titles.

In 2020 we established the first electronic magazine for children’s literature in N. Macedonia – Strange Forest, that aims to promote reading habits.

In 2023, the StrangeForest bookstore was opened – a new, fresh hub for young and all readers, authors, illustrators, translators, literary critics and book bloggers.

In 2024, we founded the STRANGE FOREST publishing group by opening the smaller publishing house STRANGE FOREST JUNIOR, functioning as independed entity with separate editorial team, commited to publishing illustrated books, picture books and art books.

Later in 2024, the FineArt print studio STRANGE FOREST ART was founded.


Contact: Biljana Crvenkovska

biljana.crvenkovska@id-concept.mk

info@cudnasuma.com

http://www.cudnasuma.com