{"id":62828,"date":"2022-11-04T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.acosopov.com\/%d0%bf%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%be%d1%82-%d0%bf%d0%be-%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%98-%d1%87%d0%b5%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:15:32","slug":"the-road-i-walk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/hall\/the-road-i-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Road I walk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\t“The Road I walk”\n\t<\/h1>\n\t

“I am one of those poets who remain true to themselves from their first steps in poetry to their creative maturity,’ Aco \u0160opov declared in an interview with Nenad Radanovi\u0107 in 1978. ‘No literary wind has diverted me from the road I walk on,” he said, before concluding: “The poet is known by his poem, not by the signature he puts on it.”<\/p>\n

You are at the starting point of this road \u0160opov walked on for four decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aco \u0160opov was born on 23 December 1923 in \u0160tip, at a time when Macedonia was an integral part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In 1930, he enrolled at primary school in his hometown. At the age of fourteen, he wrote his first poems in Serbian, due to historical conditions. Encouraged by the publication of Ko\u010do Racin’s White Dawns<\/i>, one of the first three collections published in Macedonian language outside the national borders, \u0160opov wrote a complete collection of poems in Macedonian, at the age of seventeen. This handwritten collection, entitled Poems on \u0160tip<\/i>, best known as “The Caravanserais”,\u00a0 the title of its key poem, disappeared in the whirlwind of the Second World War, but \u0160opov continued walking on his road in poetry:<\/p>\n