Kole Čašule ( cyrl, Коле Чашуле; March 2, 1921 – September 22, 2009) was a

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and Yugoslav essayist, dramatist, short story writer and ambassador. Čašule was one of the founders of the Macedonian Writers' Association and served as the organization's president.

Life

Čašule was born as Nikola Kepev оn Маrch 2, 1921, in the town of

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(present-day

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), to a Bulgarian Exarchist family. Until 1918, his father Ilija Kepev was the director of a Bulgarian high school. His maternal uncle Ilija Čašule adopted him in 1925 and he ended up taking his surname. From 1938 until the beginning of the

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, he studied medicine at the

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. He was a member of the partisan communist group that started the communist resistance against Bulgarian occupation on October 11, 1941, in Prilep. In 1942, Čašule was arrested and sentenced in Bulgaria to death, as the organizer of an assassination attempt against the former IMRO activist Mane Machkov. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was imprisoned in Idrizovo near

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. He escaped from prison in 1944. During the 1940s, he was a public prosecutor in the

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s against people of the Macedonian Bulgarian movement and the Macedonian movement, which resulted in killings and repressions. In 1946, Čašule and Lazar Mojsov, as members of the judicial council, sentenced

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to 11 years in prison. Čašule worked as the editor of two Macedonian magazines, ''Nov den'' and '' Sovremenost''. He also served as the director of Radio Skopje and the Drama Director for the Macedonian National Theatre. Čašule also wrote novels and was part of the first generation of Macedonian prose writers. Čašule was named an honorary member of the

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. Čašule was the recipient of several major Yugoslav awards, including the ''Marin Drzić'' for dramatic work, the ''July 4'' award, the '' Sterijina nagrada'', the ''October 11'' award, the ''Stale Popov'' and the ''Misla'', which he was awarded for his entire body of work. Additionally, Čašule diplomatically represented Yugoslavia. He was Yugoslavia's ambassador to

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and

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. He also served as a consul to Canada. Čašule died on September 22, 2009, at the age of 88.

Notable works

* 1948 – ''An Evening'' (''Edna večer'') * 1950 – ''The Collective'' (''Zadruga'') * 1957 – ''Twig in the Wind'' (''Vejka na vetrot'') * 1958 – ''Furrow'' (''Brazda'') * 1960 – ''Darkness'' (''Crnila'') * 1962 – ''The Game'' (''Igra'')

References

1921 births 2009 deaths Yugoslav writers Yugoslav Partisans members Macedonian writers Magazine editors Macedonian dramatists and playwrights Macedonian diplomats Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Brazil Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Bolivia Ambassadors of Yugoslavia to Peru 20th-century dramatists and playwrights People from Prilep {{NorthMacedonia-bio-stub