Struga Poetry Evenings (
SPE) (, СВП;
tr. Struški večeri na poezijata,
SVP) is an international
poetry festival held annually in
Struga,
Macedonia. During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the
Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including:
Mahmoud Darwish,
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey,
W. H. Auden,
Joseph Brodsky,
Allen Ginsberg,
Bulat Okudzhava,
Pablo Neruda,
Eugenio Montale,
Léopold Sédar Senghor,
Artur Lundkvist,
Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
Nichita Stănescu,
Ted Hughes,
Ko Un,
Adunis,
Makoto Ooka,
Miroslav Krleža,
Yehuda Amichai,
Seamus Heaney,
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer,
Bei Dao, and domestic authors such as
Blaže Koneski,
Mateja Matevski.