Aco Šopov
Aco Šopov (Macedonian: Ацо Шопов [ˈat͡sɔ ˈʃɔpɔf]; 1923 – 1982) was a Macedonian poet. He was considered one of the most important poets of Yugoslavia. He took part in World War II in Yugoslavia (1941–45) and his poems written at the time were published as Pesni (Poems) in Belgrade and Kumanovo in 1944, and in Štip the following year. Pesni was the first poetry collection published in Macedonian in SR Macedonia after the war.
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A portrait of Aco Šopov | |
| Born | Александар Шопов December 20, 1923 Štip, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | April 20, 1982 Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | poet, translator, editor, diplomat |
| Genre | Southeastern Europe contemporary poetry |
| Spouse | Svetlana Šopova |
Šopov was member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1967) and corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1968).
He graduated from the philosophy department of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje and the Higher Political School in Belgrade. He was president of the Translators’ Union and the Writers’ Union of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in the 1950s and 1960s, and of the Writers’ Union of Yugoslavia from 1965 to 1969. From 1970 to 1977 he was a diplomat.