Sovremenost is the oldest Macedonian magazine for literature, culture and art. It was created in

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

as a direct successor of the first Macedonian magazine for art, science and social issues "Nov Den". The first issue of the first magazine for art, science and social issues, the monthly magazine "Nov Den" was published in October 1945. The new publication embraced principles of artistic pluralism, diversity and inclusivity with explicit rejection of imposition of stylistic uniformity. The editors of "Nov Den" were: Dimitar Mitrev, Vlado Maleski,

Blaže Koneski Blaže Koneski ( mk, Блаже Конески; 19 December 1921 – 7 December 1993) was a Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar. His major contribution was to the codification of standard Macedonian. He is the key ...

, Slavko Janevski and

Kole Čašule Nikola "Kole" Čašule ( cyrl, Коле Чашуле; March 2, 1921 – September 22, 2009) was a Macedonian-Yugoslavian essayist, dramatist, short story writer and ambassador. Chashule was one of the founders of the Macedonian Writers' Associat ...

. The magazine for literature, culture and art "Sovremenost" was created by the editors of "Nov den" and is the direct successor of this magazine. The first editor of the publication in period between 1951 and 1953 was Vlado Maleski followed by Dimitar Mitrev from 1954 till 1969. "Sovremenost" exerted a great influence in the promotion and affirmation of

Macedonian literature Macedonian literature ( mk, македонска книжевност) begins with the Ohrid Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire (nowadays North Macedonia) in 886. These first written works in the dialects of the Old Church Slavonic w ...

both in the country and abroad. A large number of Macedonian authors debuted on the pages of the magazine, who later became bearers of Macedonian prose, poetry and drama (e.g. Stale Popov with the short stories "Mice Kasapče" and "Petre Andov"), but also authors by whom the magazine was recognized (for example,

Aco Šopov Aco Šopov ( mk, Ацо Шопов ; 1923 in Štip – 1982 in Skopje) was a Macedonian poet. He was considered one of the most important poets of Yugoslavia. He took part in World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–45) and his poems written at the tim ...

, Dimitar Mitrev,

, and others). The publication covered other artistic fields publishing contributions on music, theatre, visual art as well as significant number of translations of important works from other Yugoslav languages.

Editors and editorial policy

The chief editors of "Sovremenost" were the writers and publicists: * 1951 - Kiro Hadji Vasilev * 1951-1952 - Vlado Maleski * 1952-53 - Slavko Janevski, Dimitar Mitrev and

* 1954-1957 - Dimitar Mitrev * 1958 - Alexandar Ezhov * 1958-1968 - Dimitar Mitrev * 1969-1982 - Georgi Stalev Popovski * 1983-2002 - Aleksandar Alexiev * 2003-2012 - Vasil Tocinovski * 2013-2017 - Slavčo Koviloski * 2018 -

Stefan Markovski Stefan Markovski (Macedonian: Стефан Марковски) is a contemporary Macedonian writer, screenwriter, poet, philosopher and translator. Biography Markovski was born in Gevgelija in 1990, where he finished his primary and secondary edu ...

Macedonian writers and actors were part of the editorial teams of "Sovremenost":

Vasil Iljoski Vasil Iljoski ( mk, Васил Иљоски, (December 20, 1902 - November 1, 1995) was a Macedonian writer, dramatist, professor and an important figure in Macedonian literature, especially in Macedonian drama between the two World Wars. Bio ...

, Gogo Ivanovski, Gane Todorovski, Cvetko Martinovski, Taško Georgievski, Meto Jovanovski, Jovan Boškovski,

Miodrag Drugovac Miodrag ( sr-Cyrl, Миодраг) is a South Slavonic, for all purposes almost exclusively Serbian, masculine given name, derived from ''mio'' ("tender, cute") and '' drag'' ("dear, beloved"), both common in Slavonic dithematic names. It may refer ...

Tome Momirovski A tome or codex is a large book, especially one volume of a multi-volume scholarly work. Tome may also refer to: Places * Tome, Miyagi, city in Japan (formerly Tome District) *Tome, New Mexico, an unincorporated community and census-designated ...

Risto Avramovski Risto ( sr, Ристо) is a masculine given name, found in Finnish, Estonian and South Slavic. In South Slavic, it is a hypocorism derived from '' Hristofor'' or ''Hristivoje''. It may refer to: Estonia *Risto Järv (born 1971), folklorist * ...

, Duško Nanevski, Georgi Stardelov, Simon Drakul, Petar Širilov, Blagoja Anastasovski, Tome Sazdov, Metodi Manev, and others.

References

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