Ivan Čapovski

Ivan Čapovski (born October 12, 1936) is a Macedonian writer, poet and novelist.

Life and career Čapovski was born in the village Pozarsko, Aegean Macedonia, Greece on October 12, 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) Rain, After the Rain, Vera (poetry, Kočo Racin, 1964) Evangelists (poetry, 1969) Beautiful Razdelina (poetry, Makedonska Kniga-Skopje, 1973) Ship (poetry, Misla, 1980) Border (novel, Makedonska Kniga, 1982) Prisons (poetry, Misla, 1983) Fog ( novel, Misla, 1985) Snake (novel, Misla, 1989). 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) The Women of Summer (poetry, Misla,1992) Macedonian Orthodox Church ‘St Georges’ (York Press, Melbourne 1992) Blood of the Eucalyptus Tree (novel, Makedonska kniga-Skopje, 1996) Writer’s Saga (novel, MATICA MAKEDONSKA, Skopje and Melbourne, 1999) Tamarisk's Poison (novel, Kultura, 2002) The Sorrow of Miles Franklin Beneath the Kajmakčalan (novel, Kultura, 2004) The Poet and the Beautiful Razdelina (2006) Crni Sokoli- Beli Megleni (Mikena, 2008) The Executor (novel, Makavej, 2008) Čapovski, Ivan. Dželatot: Roman. Skopje: Makavej, 2008. Print. The Vision of Lokvata and Vinari (stories, MATICA MAKEDONSKA 2010) Lazar's Star Above New York (political chronicle, Silson, 2012) Pesna za stariot komita (poetry, Matica Makedonska, 2016) Ubavinata i tainstvenosta na knigite (Matica Makedonska, 2021. Print.)