Venko Markovski
| Venko Markovski | |
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| Born |
March 5, 1915 Skoplje, Kingdom of Serbia (now Republic of Macedonia) |
| Died | January 7, 1988 (aged 72) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Occupation | writer, poet, politician |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Genre | poems, history, sonnets |
| Notable works | Predania zavetni |
Venko Markovski (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Венко Марковски), born Veniamin Milanov Toshev (March 5, 1915, Skopje—January 7, 1988, Sofia) was a Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.
Born on March 5, 1915 in Skoplje (now Skopje), Kingdom of Serbia, then occupied by Kingdom of Bulgaria, (now Republic of Macedonia), Markovski completed his secondary education in Skoplje, later studying Slavic Philology in Sofia. Markovski was a member of the Macedonian Literary Group founded in Skoplje in 1931, the Macedonian Literary Circle in Sofia, Bulgaria (1938–1941). He is an important figure in contemporary Macedonian literature after has published in 1938, what was to be the first contemporary book written in non-dialectal Macedonian language, "Narodni bigori". As the most of the left-wing politicians from Macedonia he has changed his ethnic affiliations from Bulgarian to Macedonian during the 1930s, after the recognition of the Macedonian ethnicity from the Comintern. However such Macedonian activists, members of the Bulgarian Communist Party, never managed to get rid of their pro-Bulgarian bias.
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