Bogomil Gjuzel
Macedonian writer (1939–2021)
Bogomil Gjuzel (Macedonian: Богомил Ѓузел; Bulgarian: Богомил Гюзел [boɡoˈmiɫ ɟoˈzɛɫ]; Serbian: Богомил Ђузел; 9 February 1939 – 22 April 2021) was a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator.
Biography
Born in 1939 in Čačak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Bulgarian parents, Gjuzel was the son of the Bulgarian revolutionary and philosopher Dimitar Gyuzelov. His mother, Donka Ivanova, was one of the founders of the Secret Cultural and Educational Organization of Macedonian Bulgarian Women. He graduated from the Department of English at the University of Skopje (SFR Yugoslavia), in 1963, and spent an academic year at the University of Edinburgh as a British Council scholar, 1964/65. He died in 2021, aged 82.
Work
Gjuzel was a dramaturge with the Dramski Theater in Skopje for two terms, 1966-1971 and 1985–1998. He participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1972–1973, and in the poetry festivals in Rotterdam (1978 & 1996), San Francisco (1980), Herleen (1991), Maastricht and Valencia (2000). He was one of the ten founders of the Independent Writers of Macedonia association and its first chairman in 1994, and since 1995 editor-in-chief of its bi-monthly journal Naše Pismo. Since 1999 he was an acting director of the Struga Poetry Evenings.
Gjuzel was the first editor of Shine Poetry.
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