Kole Čašule (Cyrillic: Коле Чашуле; March 2, 1921 – September 22, 2009) was a Macedonian and Yugoslav essayist, dramatist, short story writer and ambassador.[1] Čašule was one of the founders of the Macedonian Writers' Association and served as the organization's president.[1]
Life
Čašule was born as Nikola Kepev оn Маrch 2, 1921, in the town of Prilep, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia), to a Bulgarian Exarchist family.[1][2][3] Until 1918, his father Ilija Kepev was the director of a Bulgarian high school. His maternal uncle Ilija Čašule adopted him in 1925 and he ended up taking his surname.[2] From 1938 until the beginning of the World War II, he studied medicine at the University of Belgrade.[4] He was a member of the partisan communist group that started the communist resistance against Bulgarian occupation on October 11, 1941, in Prilep. In 1942, Čašule was arrested and sentenced in Bulgaria to death, as the organizer of an assassination attempt against the former IMRO activist Mane Machkov.[2] His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was imprisoned in Idrizovo near Skopje.[5] He escaped from prison in 1944.[2] During the 1940s, he was a public prosecutor in the show trials against people of the Macedonian Bulgarian movement and the Macedonian movement, which resulted in killings and repressions.[6] In 1946, Čašule and Lazar Mojsov, as members of the judicial council, sentenced Metodija Andonov-Čento to 11 years in prison.[7]
Čašule worked as the editor of two Macedonian magazines, Nov den and Sovremenost.[1] He also served as the director of Radio Skopje and the Drama Director for the Macedonian National Theatre.[1] Čašule also wrote novels and was part of the first generation of Macedonian prose writers.[8][9] Čašule was named an honorary member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[1] Čašule was the recipient of several major Yugoslav awards, including the Marin Drzić for dramatic work, the July 4 award, the Sterijina nagrada, the October 11 award, the Stale Popov and the Misla, which he was awarded for his entire body of work. Additionally, Čašule diplomatically represented Yugoslavia. He was Yugoslavia's ambassador to Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.[1] He also served as a consul to Canada.[1] Čašule died on September 22, 2009, at the age of 88.[1]
Notable works
- 1948 – An Evening (Edna večer)
- 1950 – The Collective (Zadruga)
- 1957 – Twig in the Wind (Vejka na vetrot)
- 1958 – Furrow (Brazda)
- 1960 – Darkness (Crnila)
- 1962 – The Game (Igra)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kole Chashule dies". Macedonian Information Agency. September 23, 2009. Archived from the original on December 28, 2011. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Dimitar Bechev (2019). Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 66. ISBN 9781538119624.
- ^ Blaže Ristovski (ed.). Macedonian Encyclopedia (in Macedonian). MANU. p. 1617.
- ^ Vojislav Ilić (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 69.
- ^ Gane Todorovski (1983). Podaleku od zanesot, poblizu do bolot (in Macedonian). Misla. p. 271.
- ^ Stojan Kiselinovski (2016). "Historical Roots of the Macedonian Language Codification". Studia Środkowoeuropejskie i Bałkanistyczne: 137. doi:10.4467/2543733XSSB.16.009.6251.
- ^ "„Дневник": Почнува лустрацијата на егзекуторите на Ченто?". Kanal 5 (in Macedonian). November 26, 2013.
- ^ Nataša Avramovska (2012). "Kole Čašule (1921–2009)". Colloquia Humanistica: 349–350.
- ^ Andrew Rossos (2013). Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History. Hoover Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780817948832.
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