PATRICIA MARSH-STEFANOVSKA (Pat Marsh) is a linguist with a master’s degree in general linguistics. She went to Yugoslavia to take up the post of British Council lector in English at the University of Skopje in 1974. She met Goran Stefanovski after a month there andthey were married in 1976. Patricia is the author of a number of articles published in linguistic journals, especially those concerned with comparative linguistics.

As a native speaker of English, Patricia was much in demand as a translation editor from the beginning of her life in what was then the Republic of Macedonia. After she had become a competent speaker of Macedonian, she began to make her own translations of all kinds of texts, especially Goran’s plays. She returned to the U.K. with her family during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. From 1998, Goran began to write most of his plays in English, and Patricia took on the role of his language editor.

After retirement, Patricia became an author in her own right and has published works of both fiction and non-fiction. She is also an environmentalist involved in political and community action related to the climate emergency and sustainability.