Ivan Čapovski
Portrait of a Macedonian writer Ivan Čapovski
Born	October 12, 1936 Pozarsko, Aegean Macedonia, Greece
Nationality	Macedonian
Occupation	Writer

Ivan Čapovski is a Macedonian writer, poet and novelist. Macedonian: Иван Чаповски; also Ivan Čapovski; Capovskǐ, Ivan; Čapovski, Ivan 1936- ; Ivan Čapovski Macedonian writer; Чаповски Иван 1936- ; Иван Чаповски.

Čapovski was born in the village Pozarsko, Aegean Macedonia, Greece in 1936. Amidst the Greek Civil War in 1947, he fled with his family to Vojvodina (Serbia) and later on to the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. Čapovski graduated in Macedonian and history of literature from the Philosophy Department at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. He worked as a journalist in the newspapers Vecer and Nova Makedonija. Since 1963 he worked as a documentary director at the Macedonian Television and Radio Broadcast for more than 20 years. He has been editor-in-chief of the Makedonska Kniga publishing house. He has been a member of the Macedonian Writers Association since 1963 and the Macedonian PEN Centre. His poetry has been widely published and translated throughout Europe and Asia. Today he lives and writes in Skopje.

Published works

• Ashes under the Olive Trees (poetry, Kultura, 1963)^[1]
• Rain, After the Rain, Vera (poetry, Kočo Racin, 1964)^[2]
• Evangelists (poetry, 1969)^[3]
• Beautiful Razdelina (poetry, Makedonska Kniga-Skopje, 1973)^[4]
• Ship (poetry, Misla, 1980)^[5]
• Border (novel, Makedonska Kniga, 1982)^[6]
• Prisons (poetry, Misla, 1983)^[7]
• Fog ( novel, Misla, 1985)^[8]
• Snake (novel, Misla, 1989).^[9]
• The Wooden Bridges of the Vardar, Čapovski, Ivan, and Kosta Bojadžievski. Drvenite Mostovi Na Vardar. Skopje: Makedonska kniga, 1990. Print.
• Krstan and Sirak (novel, Detska Radost-Skopje, 1991)^[10]
• The Women of Summer (poetry, Misla,1992)^[11]
• Macedonian Orthodox Church ‘St Georges’ (York Press, Melbourne 1992)^[12]
• Blood of the Eucalyptus Tree (novel, Makedonska kniga-Skopje, 1996)^[13]
• Writer’s Saga (novel, MATICA MAKEDONSKA, Skopje and Melbourne, 1999)^[14]
• Tamarisk's Poison (novel, Kultura, 2002)^[15]
• The Sorrow of Miles Franklin Beneath the Kajmakčalan (novel, Kultura, 2004)^[16]
• The Poet and the Beautiful Razdelina (2006)^[17]
• Crni Sokoli- Beli Megleni (Mikena, 2008)^[18]
• The Executor (novel, Makavej, 2008) Čapovski, Ivan. Dželatot: Roman. Skopje: Makavej, 2008. Print.
• The Vision of Lokvata and Vinari (stories, MATICA MAKEDONSKA 2010)^[19]
• Lazar's Star Above New York (political chronicle, Silson, 2012)^[20]
• Pesna za stariot komita (poetry, Matica Makedonska, 2016)^[21]
• Ubavinata i tainstvenosta na knigite (Matica Makedonska, 2021. Print.)^[22]

Bibliography

Awards

In 2010 Čapovski was awarded the Macedonian National Award for Science, Arts and Education, ‘23 October Award’, for his life work. His book of poetry Beautiful Razdelina was awarded the distinguished ‘13 November Award’, his novels Fog and The Blood of the Eucalyptus tree received the 'Kosta Racin Award' and the 'Stale Popov Award'. His novel Snake received the “Misla Publishing House Award” for the best novel of the year. In 2014 he was awarded 'Literary Scepter' Книжевно жезло (from the Writers' Association of Macedonia).^[26]

References

External links

• Čapovski, Ivan. Makedonska Srednovekovna Kniževnost. Skopje: Makedonska kniga, 1991. Print.
• PETRESKI, H., et al. (1989). Sobesednici: (razgovori so pisateli). Skopje, Naša kniga.
• Промовиран четиритомен избор од творештвото на Иван Чаповски Retrieved 26 September 2020.
• Избраните дела од Иван Чаповски ќе бидат промовирани во ДПМ