Tomislav Osmanli (1956) is a distinguished Macedonian author - a play and screenplay writer, a media theoretic, prose writer, film and theater critic and essayist. He is author of nine books. Osmanli has written the first Macedonian books dedicated to the theory of the Seventh (The Film and the Politics, 1981) and the Ninth art (Comics - a Scripture of Human Image, 1987). His other books include Skopje dyptichon (screenplays, 1990) ,The Missing Media (essays on the civil urbanity, 1992), The Butterfly of the Childhood, (short nostalgic stories, 1993), Listening in a Deaf Time (political essays, 1994), Two in Eden (a comic-play, 1995), The New King (childrens’ play, 1998), The Stars over Skopje (two theater plays, 2000). His stories have been published in two short story anthologies Skopje Stories (1996) and A Day in Skopje (1998).
    He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Angels of the Dumps (1997) - a human drama taking place in the East-European post communist environment, sellected and presented in the international festivals in Pula, Croatia; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Cairo, Egypt; San Diego, USA; also presented as a special program by the American Film Institute in the National Film Theater in the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He has written other, regularly contest winning, feature screenplays: Man Without Address (1976); The Stars of ’42(1984); Skopje Reveries (1987); Snake flies in the Skies (1999); short meter film and TV documentaries. His theater work includes: the satirical comedy Salon Booms (staged 1986), the two multimedia plays Memento for a City (1993) and Mischief Shadows (1994), the chamber play Two in Eden (1995, 1997 and 1998), the play Lightning-bugs in the Night (1997 and 1999), the children’s play on the Nativity and the first Macedonian Biblical theme play The New King (2000), the war farce Apocalyptic Comedy (1999) and the mono-play Cloudy Confession (2000) and the play Techno Star (2000).
    The Croatian periodical for literature Knjizevna revija (no.1/2, 2000) published the translation of his play Apocalyptic Comedy.
    His holocaust story The Photograph of Aunt Rachel won the First prize on the 1999 national contest of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

For his diverse author’s work, Tomislav Osmanli won numerous prizes.

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