 Stefanovski was an international figure, whose work dealt with issues of migration, post-communist transition and identity, as well as what it means to be human.Goran Stefanovski was born on 27 April 1952 in Bitola, a town then in Yugoslavia, near the border with Greece on the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe.His father, Mirko, was a theatre director and his mother, Nada, a leading actress.