Vera Bužarovska (b.1931 Bitola – d.2013 Skopje) began her writing career in 1962, publishing more than forty works of prose and poetry for both adults and children. Her novels center mainly on the fate of women in a patriarchal society. Of particular note is the novel Akcilnica (1974; The Last Summer in the Old Bazaar), a powerful autobiographical story of the author’s childhood and her home town Bitola in the period before and during the Second World War.