Mile Nedelkoski ( mk, Миле Неделкоски; November 25, 1935 – June 21, 2020) was a Macedonian poet, novelist, storyteller, and playwright. In Bulgaria, he had a reputation for being a

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intellectual.

Biography

Nedelkoski was born on November 25, 1935, in

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. He served as an editor at Kultura press. He became a member of the Macedonian Writers' Society ( mk, Друштво на писателите на Македонија, ДПМ) in 1963. Awards that he received included the Miladinov Brothers Prize, the

Kočo Racin Kosta Apostolov Solev ( Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian and bg, Коста Апостолов Солев; 22 December 1908 – 13 June 1943), primarily known by his pen name Kočo Racin ( Macedonian, Bulgarian and sh, Кочо Рацин), was a ...

Prize, and the Racin Award. According to Macedonian news sources, during the times of Communist Yugoslavia, and allegedly even afterwards, Nedelkovski was spied on by the secret services as a pro-Bulgarian activist. Nedelkoski died on June 21, 2020, in Skopje.

Publications

* ''Срце од злато'' (Heart of Gold; poetry, 1963) * ''Јужно лето'' (Southern Year; poetry, 1964) * ''Улавиот од Преспа'' (The Madman from

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; poem, 1965) * ''Јавачи на ветар'' (Riders on the Wind; stories, 1967) * ''Пепелаши'' (Ashes; novel, 1968) * ''Еретикон-еротикон'' (Hereticon-Eroticon; poetry, 1969) * ''Трненки'' (

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; novel, 1972) * ''Триумфот на Тројанскиот коњ'' (Triumph on a Trojan Horse; play in verse, 1974) * ''Пандур'' (The

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; novel, 1982) * ''Враќање во арената на стариот прославен, заслужен и ислужен кловн и Пропаста на Олимп'' (An Old Celebrated Worthy and Weary Clown's Return to the Arena and the Decline of Olympus; plays in verse, 1983) * ''Недела ден за каење'' (Sunday, Day for Repentance; poetry, 1984) * ''Битпазар стилски вежби, ете...'' (poetry, 1984) * ''Прозорец што гледа на улица'' (A Window with a View of the Street) * ''Преспански круг со црвена боја и На крепоста чувари'' (plays, 1985) * ''Потковица на смртта и надежта'' (A Horseshoe of Death and Hope; novel, 1986) * ''Петрафил за вечната земја'' (An

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for the Eternal Earth; novel, 1988) * ''Подгревање на вчерашниот ручек'' (Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch; novel, 1988) * ''Огледала на сенките'' (Mirrors of Shadows; poetry, 1989) * ''Создателот и старата емигрантка - продавачка на разни плодови'' (The Creator and the Old Emigrant—A Seller of Various Fruit; novel, 1991) * ''Логоманија'' (Logomania; essays, 1996) * ''Празникот на светите маченици'' (The Feast of the Holy Martyrs; novel, 1996).

Notes

1935 births 2020 deaths Macedonian writers People from Prilep {{RMacedonia-writer-stub