Bogomil Gjuzel ( mk, Богомил Ѓузел; bg, Богомил Гюзел ; sr, Богомил Ђузел; 9 February 1939 – 22 April 2021) was a

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poet, writer, playwright and translator.

Biography

Born in 1939 in

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, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Bulgarian parents, Gjuzel was the son of the

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revolutionary and philosopher

Dimitar Gyuzelov Dimitar Gyuzelov ( bg, Димитър Гюзелов, ) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and philosopher.''National Liberation Struggle in Macedonia, 1919 - 1941,'' the Collective IC "Knowledge", Sofia (1998), p 166-218 He is the father of ...

. He graduated from the Department of English at the

University of Skopje The Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje ( mk, Универзитет „Св. Кирил и Методиј“ во Скопје) is the oldest and largest public university in North Macedonia. It is named after the Byzantine Christia ...

(

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), in 1963, and spent an academic year at the

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as a British Council scholar, 1964/65. He died in 2021, aged 82.

Work

Gjuzel was a

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with the Dramski Theater in

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for two terms, 1966-1971 and 1985–1998. He participated in th
International Writing Program
at the

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in 1972–1973, and in the poetry festivals in

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(1978 & 1996),

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(1980), Herleen (1991),

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and

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(2000). He was one of the ten founders of th
Independent Writers of Macedonia
association and its first chairman in 1994, and since 1995 editor-in-chief of its bi-monthly journal ''Naše Pismo''. Since 1999 he was an acting director of the

Struga Poetry Evenings Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) ( mk, Струшки вечери на поезијата, СВП; tr. ''Struški večeri na poezijata'', ''SVP'') is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, North Macedonia. During the several dec ...

. Gjuzel was the first editor of ''Shine Poetry''.

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wrote and published a Ph.D. dissertation on his poetry: ''Bogomil Guzel, Poeticky dialogz natura i kultura'', Katowice 1994, in Polish, translated and published in Macedonian in 1999.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Mead'' (1962 & 1971) * ''Alchemical Rose'' (1963) * ''Libation Bearers'' (1966), awarded with the Brothers Miladinov Prize for the best book of the year * ''Odysseus in Hell'' (a selection, 1969) * ''A Well in Time'' (1972), Brothers Miladinov Award * ''The Wheel of the Year'' (1977) * ''Reality is All'' (1980) * ''State of Siege'' (1981) * ''Empty Space'' (1982) * ''Darkness and Milk'' (1986), and in Serbo-Croatian in 1987 awarded the Aleksa Šantic Yugoslav Award for 1985-88 * ''Destroying the Wall'' (1989) * ''Selected Poems'' (1991) * ''Naked Life'' (1994) * ''Chaos'' (1998) * ''She/It'' (a long poem, 2000) * ''Selected Poetry'' (1962-2002) (2002). * Selections in Serbo-Croatian: ''Sky, Earth and Sun'' (1963), ''Mead'' (1972), bilingual ''Poems'' (1981). * Selection in Slovenian: ''The Fish of Sense'' (1985). * Selections in English: ''Three'' (1972), ''The Wreckage Reconsidered'' (Chattanooga Chapbooks, Tennessee, 1997), ''

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'' ( Xenos Books, California, USA, 2001). Included in all the anthologies of Macedonian and Yugoslav poetry since 1963.

Prose

* ''History as Stepmother'' (essays, 1969) * ''The Whole World is a House'' (travelogues from Ireland and USA, 1975) * ''Mytho-Stories'' (three plays, 1982) * ''Legends'' (stories, 1984) * ''A Bundle'' (essays - in preparation). With Ljubiša Geiorgievski * ''Black'' (a tragic farce, 1989).

Translations

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'' (1969) * ''

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'' (1972) * ''

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'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1981) * ''

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'' (1984) * ''

Twelfth Night ''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vio ...

'' (1985) * ''

Troilus and Cressida ''Troilus and Cressida'' ( or ) is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602. At Troy during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida begin a love affair. Cressida is forced to leave Troy to join her father in the Greek camp. Meanwh ...

'' (1992) * '' The Tempest'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1994). * Bond's '' Saved'' *

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'' Long Day’s Journey Into Night'' * Sheppard's ''

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'' * Pinter's ''

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'' * Selected poetry by:

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn't ...

(1984) *

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(1986) *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

(2001) * Contemporary American Poetry, 1978 (translator and co-editor), with second and revised edition in 1999.

References

External links

Bogomil's Gjuzel biography on Macedonian PEN Centre's website

Bogomil Gjuzel: Selected poetry (1962-2002)
Poems translated in English and originally in Macedonian {{DEFAULTSORT:Gjuzel, Bogomil 1939 births 2021 deaths Writers from Čačak Macedonian poets Macedonian translators Macedonian people of Bulgarian descent Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje alumni International Writing Program alumni