Janevski, Slavko

Janevski, Slavko 

Born Jan. 11, 1920, in Skopje. Macedonian writer. Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences (1967).

Janevski’s poetry collections The Bloody Necklace (1945), Poems (1948), and Lyrics (1951) reflected events of World War II. He wrote The Street (1950), which takes place in prewar Macedonia, and The Village Beyond the Seven Ash Trees (1952), which deals with the socialist reconstruction of a village; these works were the first novella and the first novel, respectively, in Macedonian literature. Janevski’s poetry collections Bread and Stone (1957) and Kainavelija (1968) and the novels Two Marias (1956) and The Stubborn Ones (1969) interweave the themes of the tragic past of the Macedonian people and the fate of man in the modern world. They are written in an intricate symbolic, metaphorical style. Janevski also wrote the first works of Macedonian children’s literature.

Janevski received the State Prize of the Antifascist Veche of People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia (1968).

WORKS

Izbor, vols. 1–8. Skopje, 1969.
Omarnini. Skopje, 1972.

REFERENCE

Drugovac, M. Kniga za Janevski. Skopje, 1971.