Rumena Bužarovska (Macedonian: Румена Бужаровска) is a fiction writer, literary translator, and social commentator born in 1981 in Skopje, Yugoslavia.

Bužarovska is the author of the screenplay for the short film Tina’s Problem, directed by Radovan Petrović and produced by Kino Oko in 2021.

[4] Bužarovska's books have been published and translated into English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian, Montenegrin, Albanian and Hungarian.

[8] She is a columnist for the Serbian weekly Vreme[9] and the Macedonian newspaper Nezavisen Vesnik[10] and has published social commentary in a selection of magazines, journals and books.

She has translated works by Flannery O'Connor, J. M. Coetzee, Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote, Iain Reid and Richard Gwyn.