''White Dawns'' ( mk, Бели мугри, Beli mugri) is a collection of poems by the famous
Macedonian
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writer
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 ...
(Кочо Рацин), published in 1939 in
Samobor
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, near
Zagreb
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,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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(present-day
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). This is the third collection of poems published in contemporary
Macedonian language
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, after
Venko Markovski
Venko Markovski (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian and mk, Венко Марковски), born Veniamin Milanov Toshev (March 5, 1915 in Skopje – January 7, 1988 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian and Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian writer, poet, Y ...
's ''Folk Sorrows'' (''Народни бигори'') and ''The Fire'' (''Огинот''), published in 1938.
Publication and content
White Dawns was printed on 25 November at the printing house of Dragutin Schpuler in 4,000 copies. After the established
communist
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practice, the title is printed in red. Since there was a danger in discovering the author's identity, Kosta Solev published the work under the pseudonym "K. Racin" (К. Рацин). According to ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', the poetry collection explores the fate of impoverished Macedonians. The poems of the book were prohibited by the Yugoslav government. Per
Preply, it is the most translated book from
North Macedonia
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.
''White Dawns'' comprises 12 poems in the following order:
*''Days'' (''Денови'')
*''Sorrow'' (''Печал'')
*''Rural toil'' (''Селска мака'')
*''The tobacco harvesters'' (''Тутуноберачите'')
*''Lenka'' (''Ленка'')
*''Farewell'' (''Проштавање'')
*''A ballad to the unknown one'' (''Балада за непознатиот'')
*''Elegies for you'' (''Елегии за тебе'')
*''The morning above us'' (''Утрото над нас'')
*''Tatunčo'' (''Татунчо'')
*''To have a shop in Struga'' (''На Струга дуќан да имам'')
*''The diggers'' (''Копачите'')
See also
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Socialist realism
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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 ...
References
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External links
Several songs from ''White Dawns'' in Macedonian and in English„Lenka“ performed by Zafir Hadžimanov (mp3)
Macedonian literature
Socialist realism