Aco Šopov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aco Šopov

Macedonian poet

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: Štip, Eastern Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1982

Profession: writer, poet, political commissar, diplomat, historian, translator, linguist

Nationality: North Macedonia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Aco Šopov (Macedonian: ??? ????? ['at?s? '??p?f]; Štip, 1923 – Skopje, 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 the Macedonian language in SR Macedonia after the war. 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 University in 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.