Mile Nedelkoski

Mile Nedelkoski (Macedonian: Миле Неделкоски; November 25, 1935 – June 21, 2020) was a Macedonian poet, novelist, storyteller, and playwright.^[1][2]

Mile Nedelkoski
Born	(1935-11-25)November 25, 1935 Prilep, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	June 21, 2020(2020-06-21) (aged 84) Skopje, North Macedonia
Occupation	Writer
Citizenship	Macedonian

Biography

Nedelkoski was born on November 25, 1935, in Prilep.^[3] He served as an editor at Kultura press. He became a member of the Macedonian Writers' Society (Macedonian: Друштво на писателите на Македонија, ДПМ) in 1963. Awards that he received included the Miladinov Brothers Prize, the Kočo Racin Prize, and the Racin Award.^[4] According to Macedonian news sources, during the times of Communist Yugoslavia, and allegedly even afterwards, Nedelkovski was spied on by the secret services as a pro-Bulgarian activist.^[5][6] In Bulgaria, he had a reputation for being a bulgarophile intellectual.^[7] Nedelkoski died on June 21, 2020, in Skopje.^[8][9][10]

Publications

• Срце од злато (Heart of Gold; poetry, 1963)
• Јужно лето (Southern Year; poetry, 1964)
• Улавиот од Преспа (The Madman from Prespa; poem, 1965)
• Јавачи на ветар (Riders on the Wind; stories, 1967)
• Пепелаши (Ashes; novel, 1968)
• Еретикон-еротикон (Hereticon-Eroticon; poetry, 1969)
• Трненки (Blackthorns; novel, 1972)
• Триумфот на Тројанскиот коњ (Triumph on a Trojan Horse; play in verse, 1974)
• Пандур (The Pandur; novel, 1982)
• Враќање во арената на стариот прославен, заслужен и ислужен кловн и Пропаста на Олимп (An Old Celebrated Worthy and Weary Clown's Return to the Arena and the Decline of Olympus; plays in verse, 1983)
• Недела ден за каење (Sunday, Day for Repentance; poetry, 1984)
• Битпазар стилски вежби, ете... (poetry, 1984)
• Прозорец што гледа на улица (A Window with a View of the Street)
• Преспански круг со црвена боја и На крепоста чувари (plays, 1985)
• Потковица на смртта и надежта (A Horseshoe of Death and Hope; novel, 1986)
• Петрафил за вечната земја (An Epitrachelion for the Eternal Earth; novel, 1988)
• Подгревање на вчерашниот ручек (Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch; novel, 1988)
• Огледала на сенките (Mirrors of Shadows; poetry, 1989)
• Создателот и старата емигрантка - продавачка на разни плодови (The Creator and the Old Emigrant—A Seller of Various Fruit; novel, 1991)
• Логоманија (Logomania; essays, 1996)
• Празникот на светите маченици (The Feast of the Holy Martyrs; novel, 1996).