Tomislav Osmanli

Osmanli was born in Bitola, People's Republic of Macedonia, at that time a constituent republic of Yugoslavia. His father Dimitrie Osmanli was an acclaimed Macedonian film, theater director and author, whilst his mother was of Greek heritage from Thesaloniki. Osmanli was raised to speak both Macedonian and Greek languages, and was taught Aromanian by his paternal uncle.[1]

The family moved to Skopje when he was two years old. Osmanli studied law at the Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, where his father also lectured and was a profound influence in his formative years.

In 1981 Osmanli published his seminal work Филмот и политичкото (English: Film and Politics) a theoretical study of political cinema. In 1987 Osmanli released Стрип: Запис со човечки лик (English: Comics: Scripture of the Human Image), the first scholarly work dedicated to Comics studies published in Yugoslavia.[2][3]

Osmanli served as an independent editor and member of editing board of his nation's oldest daily newspaper Nova Makedonija from 1991 to 1998, and as chief of arts and cultural programs at Telma TV between 1998 and 2016.[4][5]

Osmanli was married to Snežana Stanković, an original founder and a vice-president of the Skopje based think-tank group Council on Foreign Relations, fellow academic and adviser to former Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov. The couple had two children, son Dimitar and daughter Aleksandra. He was widowed following the death of his wife from cancer in 2013.[6][7]

Apart from his native Macedonian, Osmanli is fluent in Greek, Aromanian, Serbo-Croatian, English, French, Italian and Latin. He is also an avid bibliophile, usually reading several books simultaneously.

• Луѓе без адреси (People Without an Address), screenplay (1976)
• Филмот и политичкото (Film and Politics) (1981)
• Вездите '42 (Stars '42), screenplay (1984)
• Salon Bums, play (1987)
• Скопље сања (Skopje is Dreaming), screenplay (1987)
• Стрип: Запис со човечки лик (Comics: Scripture of the Human Image) (1987)
• Скопски диптих (Skopjan Diptych) (1991)
• Медиумот што недостасува (Missing Medium) (1992)
• Победа над себе (Victory over Oneself), screenplay (1992)
• Ослушнувања во глуво добаpolitički (Eavesdropping in Silent Times) (1993)
• Мементо за еден град (Momento for a City) (1993)
• Немирни сенки (Restless Shadows), play (1993)
• Пеперутката на детството (Butterfly from my Youth) (1993)
• Ангели во отпад (Angels in the Waste), screenplay (1994)
• Двоје у Едену (Two in Eden), play (1995)
• Свеќи во костимот (Scrolls in the Night), play (1997)
• Новиот цар (The New Czar) (1998)
• Новиот цар (The New Czar), play (1998)
• Смук лета на небото (Smuk Flies in the Sky), screenplay (1999)
• Апокалиптична комедија (Apocalyptic Comedy), play (1999)
• Звездите над Скопје (Stars over Skopje) (2000)
• Техно ѕвезда (Techno Star), play (2000)
• Виолетни светлини и сенки, раскази (Purple Lights and Shadows) (2001)
• Пат до Парамарибо (Road to Paramaribo), play *2001)
• Друго небо (Another Sky), play (2002)
• Игри низ жанровите (Dance Through Genres), play (2003)
• Приказни од Скопје (Tales from Skopje) (2004)
• Luđe od međuvreme), People from the Meantime), screenplay (2008)
• Светилка за Ханука (Lamp for Hanukkah) (2008)
• Каприча (Capricious) (2009)
• Дваесет и првиот (Twenty first) (2009)
• Грађански простор (Civic Space) (2011)
• Зад аголот (Around the Corner) (2012)
• Бродот. Конзархија (Ship. Conarchy) (2016)
• Плеска за мраз пролет ,( Tracks to an Icy Spring), play (2017)
• Океан од слики (Ocean of Pictures) (2018)
• Пендулми од злато, (Pendulums of Gold), play (2018)
• Тајното братство на носталгичарите) (Secret Brotherhood of Nostalgia), short story (2019)
• Скопски драми (Skopje Drama), play (2019)
• Нови драми (New Plays), play (2019)
• ПараδΩξicoN/Парадоксикон (Paradoxicon) (2020)