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Skopje-Dolno Dupeni-Skopje March 2017-October 2020 petre.nakovski@gmail.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Petre Nakovski, a novelist and translator, was born on July 17, 1937 (According to church records he was born on June 15, 1936) in the village Krchishta, Kostur Region, Aegean (Greek occupied) Macedonia. He studied in Poland and graduated with a degree in Pedagogy and then studied in the Republic of Macedonia where he earned a degree from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. He received his PhD from the Polish Institute of Political Science at Vrotslav University in Poland on the topic of Macedonian Children in Poland 1948-1968, published in Skopje in 1987.

Petre worked as a journalist for Vecher and Nova Makedonija. He also worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Petre was the first Macedonian Ambassador in the Republic of Poland (1995-1999).

Petre has been a member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association since 1989.

Petre has authored several short stories published in Macedonian periodicals as well as the books: “A bed for the wrenched” (1985), “Macedonian Children in Poland 1948-1968” (Doctoral Thesis), “And the stone too is soil” (1988), “The Great Decline” (2003), “The Great Lie” (2007), “Macedonian Refugees in Poland 1948-1975”, Selected Documents (2008), “On the road of time” (2010) [Lefter Manchev sponsored the printing of 100 copies], and “Kalina” (2016).

All of the above mentioned novels have been translated for free into English by the famous and well-deserved translator of Macedonian to English literature, Risto Stefov.

Petre has translated short stories by Macedonian authors from Macedonian to Polish and published 46 literary works and a number of poems and short stories. Petre has also translated the play “Darkness” by Kole Chashule (staged in the Polish town Kastovitse (1971)), the Anthology of Macedonian Contemporary Poetry under the title “Songs from Ohrid” performed in Krakow in 1974, “Selected Poetry” by Rade Siljan, “Footprints of Time” (2010) and “The Threshold of the Past” by Trajan Petrovski (2014), published in Torun by publisher Adam Marshalek.

Petre is winner of the “Golden Pen” and the “Kiril Peichivich Prize” (for translating works). In Poland Petre was awarded the “Golden Medal” for services to the Polish Culture (1976), the “ZaiKS Prize” (1982), the “Golden Order of Command” (1999) (This is a medal with which the Polish President honoured the successful ambassadors), and the “BENE MERITO” Medal, awarded by the Republic of Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for strengthening cooperation between the two countries (2010).

Petre is married to Ditta (Aphrodite) and is the father of two daughters, Milenka and Tatiana.

Petre Nakovski’s novels were the subject of a master’s thesis by Tatiana Pelivanova entitled “The Literature of Fact in Petre Nakovski’s Novels” defended on February 14, 2014, before a commission consisting of Professor Dr. Venko Andonovski, Professor Dr. Kristina Nikolovska and Professor Dr. Vesna Moisovska-Chepishevska, at the University of Kiril and Metodi, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Kristina Nikolovska.

ACRONYMS

AVNOJ – National Anti-Fascist Liberation Council of Yugoslavia AFZH - Women’s Anti-Fascist Front ASNOM – Anti-Fascist Assembly of National Liberation of Macedonia BRP(k) – Communist Party of Bulgaria CPG - Communist Party of Greece CPM - Communist Party of Macedonia CPY - Communist Party of Yugoslavia CVG - Greek Civil War DAG – Democratic Army of Greece EAM – National Liberation Front ELAS – National Liberation Army of Greece EON – National Youth Organization EPON – All Greek National Youth Organization KOEM – Communist Organization of Aegean Macedonia KOS - Counter-intelligence Sector of JAN NKVD – People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs NOBG - Peoples Liberation Struggle in Greece NOBM - Peoples Liberation Struggle in Macedonia PLM – People’s Liberation Movement NOF - Peoples’ Liberation Front NOMS - Peoples’ Liberation Youth Organization OKNE - Communist Youth Organization of Greece ONOO – Local People’s Liberation Council OZNA – People’s Defense Division PAO - Pan-Hellenic Liberation Organization PDEG – Pan-Greek Democratic Union of Women PDOG – International Federation of Democratic Women POJ - Partisan Units of Yugoslavia PRM – People’s Republic of Macedonia SID - Information Services of the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs SNOF - Slavo-Macedonian National Liberation Front KPSS - Communist Party of the Soviet Union

UDBA - Directorate of State Security USSR – United Soviet Socialist Republics