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    Macedonian literature (Macedonian: македонска книжевност) begins with the Ohrid Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire (nowadays North Macedonia)[citation needed] in 886. These first written works in the dialects of the Old Church Slavonic were religious.[1] The school was established by St. Clement of Ohrid.[2][3] The Macedonian recension[clarification needed] at that time was part of the Old Church Slavonic and it did not represent one regional dialect but a generalized form of early Eastern South Slavic.[4] The standardization of Macedonian in the 20th century provided good ground for further development of the modern Macedonian literature and this period is the richest one in the history of the literature itself.

    History

    Macedonian was not officially recognized until the establishment of Macedonia as a constituent republic of communist Yugoslavia in 1945.

    Kosta Racin, who wrote mainly poetry in Macedonian and propagated its use through the literary journals of the 1930s. Racin's poems in Beli mugri (1939; White Dawns), which include many elements of oral folk poetry, were prohibited by the government of pre-World War II Yugoslavia. Some writers, such as Kole Nedelkovski
    , worked and published abroad because of political pressure.

    Periods

    The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts divides Macedonian literature into three large periods, which are subdivided into additional ones. The periods of the Macedonian literature are:[5][6]

    • Old Macedonian literature[7] – 9th to 18th centuries
      • From introduction of the Christianity till the Turkish invasion – 9th to 14th centuries
      • From Turkish invasion till the beginning of the 18th century
    • New Macedonian literature – 1802 to 1944
      • period of national awakening
      • revolutionary period
      • inter-war literary period
    • Modern Macedonian literature – 1944 – today

    Modern literature

    After World War II, under the new Yugoslav

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    leader by other Organization's activists and with the characters of both executioners and victim.

    Among the best-known novelists and writers of prose were

    Zivko Cingo, whose collections of stories Paskvelija (1962) and Nova Paskvelija (1965; “New Paskvelija”) are about an imaginary land where clashes and interactions between old traditions and revolutionary consciousness are enacted. His novel Golemata voda (1971; “The Great Water”), set in an orphanage, shows the grandness and sadness of childhood. Other notable writers include Petre M. Andreevski (Pirej (1980; “Pirej”)), Vlada Uroševic (Sonuvacot i prazninata (1979; “The Dreamer and the Emptiness”)), Jovan Pavlovski (Sok od prostata (1991; “Prostate Gland Juice”)), Venko Andonovski (Papokot na svetot (2000; “Navel of the World”)), Aleksandar Prokopiev (Covekot so cetiri casovnici (2003; “The Man With Four Watches”)), and some of the leading playwrights were Jordan Plevnes (Mazedonische zustände (1979; “Mazedonische zustände”)), Sashko Nasev (Chija si (1991; “Who do you Belong to”)), and Dejan Dukovski
    (Bure barut (1996; “The powder keg”)).

    The diversity of themes and narrative styles among 21st-century writers has grown even more, and the list includes writers born in the period 1970s–1990s. Some of the most distinguished in this generation are:

    Nikola Madzirov (Ostatoci od nekoe drugo vreme (2007; “Remnants of Another Age”)), Stefan Markovski (Anatomija na bumbarot (2020; “The Bumblebee Anatomy”)), Rumena Bužarovska (Mojot maz (2014; “My Husband”)), Petar Andonovski (Teloto vo koe mora da se zivee (2015; “The Body One Must Live In”)), Nenad Joldeski (Sekoj so svoeto ezero (2012; “Each with Their Own Lake”)), and others. The association of the country's writers became a member of the European Writers' Council on 04.06.2023, with Stefan Markovski giving the acceptance interview.[9]

    Authors

    Some of the well-known authors that contributed in the development of the Macedonian literature are:

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    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ Macedonian literature – Britannica
    2. ^ Medieval Macedonian literature.
    3. ^ ...He introduced the language into the official sermons and prayers in Macedonia and Southern Albania, erected several monastery's and churches, delivered sermons among the people in their own language, becoming one of the first creators of Slav and Macedonian literature. Archived 2011-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, Macedonian language on cybermacedonia.com
    4. ISBN 3-11-016284-9
    5. ^ Ristovski, Blaže. Periodizacija na makedonskiot literaturno-kulturen razvoj. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
    6. ^ Facts about the Macedonian language, Victor Friedman.
    7. ^ literary works of the Macedonian recension
    8. ^ Vojislav Ilić (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia): Matica srpska. pp. 546–547.
    9. ^ "EWC welcomes The Association of Writers of Macedonia as new member". europeanwriterscouncil.eu. European Writers' Council. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
    10. ^ a b c d e Considered/self-identified his language and himself as Bulgarian.

    References

    • Makedonska književnost (“Macedonian Literature”). Tome Sazdov, Vera Stojčevska-Antić, Dragi Stefanija, Georgij Stalev, Borislav Pavlovski. Školska knjiga. Zagreb, 1988. (in sl)

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