About the Author

About the Author

Stoian Kochov was born in 1930 in the village Turie, Lerin Region. During the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) he was an active participant in the DAG (Democratic Army of Greece) units. From 1950 to 1957 he lived and studied in the USSR until his return to the Republic of Macedonia in 1957. Stoian graduated from Belgrade University and after that moved to Skopje. Stoian authored the following works (all in Macedonian): Meeting (stories, 1989), A dead army (poetry, 1992) (Only) the sacrifice of the Macedonian people under Greece (critical essays, 1994), Dead face of war (poetry, 1996), Giorgi Pejkov - Macedonian warrior throughout the history of DAG (1945-1949) (monograph, 1996), Wanderer (novel, 1997), New Year in the underground barracks in Gramos (novel, 1998), Punishment without guilt (novel, 2001), Eve of destiny (short stories, 1998), Ideological activism over the Macedonians under Greece (critical essays, 2000), Sin of the offspring (novel), Essays and literary interpretation (critical essays, 2002), Presentiment (story), The gravedigger from Lerin (novel, 2001), Balkan Saga (novel, 2004), One way ticket (historical critical essays, 2004), The great return of the wanderers (novel, 2006), Macedonians lost in red hell (historical critical essays, 2007), The warrior and Margarita (novel, 2008).