He is a recipient of Hubert Burda European Poetry Award, the Miladinov Brothers poetry prize and has been a writer in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and LiteraturRaum in Berlin.

His works have appeared in magazines like Words Without Borders, Poetry Foundation, and World Literature Today.

He has worked as an essayist and editor besides being a poet and is an international coordinator for Lyrikline, Haus für Poesie, Berlin.

[4] Oliver Lake, a jazz composer who has collaborated with Björk and Lou Reed, has created compositions based on Madžirov's poems.

His book Remnants of Another Age, with a foreword by poet Carolyn Forché, has been translated into English, and published in German as Versetzter Stein.