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Aco Šopov’s live and work in the 1960s – Timeline
Aco Šopov, in the 1960s
1960: Publication of Shakespeare’s Hamlet translated by Šopov (Eleventh October Prize). President of the Union of Translators of Yugoslavia, until 1963. Birth of his daughter Jasmina from his marriage to Svetlana.
1961: Graduates from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. Second stay in Paris. Šopov initiates the Struga Poetry Evenings, the oldest annual international poetry festival in the world. Awarded the Order of the Republic with silver crown.
1962: First chairman of the board of the Struga Poetry Evenings.
1963: Publication of Poems, a selection of old and new poems by Šopov himself, and of the collection Not-being – Nebidnina (Eleventh October Prize). Skopje earthquake. Several poems are directly inspired by this tragedy, some of them written two years later. Member of the Yugoslav jury for the selection of the plan and construction of the mausoleum of Petar Petrović Njegoš, in Lovćen, Montenegro.
1964: Publication of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (excerpts), translated by Šopov, of Ветер приносит ь погожие дни (The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather), a collection of his poetry translated into Russian mostly by Yuri Levitansky, and of Örök várakozó (The Eternal Waiting), translated into Hungarian by Fehér Ferenc.
1965: Publication of his translation of The Sea and the Colours by Grigor Vitez and Poetry by Izet Sarajlić.
1966: Publication of Birth of the Word, a selection of old and new poems by Šopov himself, Predvečerje (Evening), poems selected and translated into Serbo-Croatian by the Montenegrin poet Sreten Perović and Evening over the City by Dragutin Tadijanović, translated by Šopov. President of the jury of the March Short Film Festival in Belgrade.
1967: Publication of Poems, a selection of poems for eighth grade students, and Selected Works: Poetry by Miroslav Krleža, translated by Šopov. Editor-in-chief (for two years) of the satirical newspaper Osten (Spur). Becomes one of the fourteen founding members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Visits Moscow on the occasion of the celebration of the October Revolution, at the invitation of the Union of Soviet Writers.
1968: Publication of his satirical poetry collection The YUniverse, his Selected Poems (edited by Georgi Stardelov) and his translation of 60 Sonnets by Shakespeare. Elected president of the jury of the Pula Festival (Croatia), the most important film festival in Yugoslavia. President of the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia. Honorary member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
1969: Publication of The Golden Circle of Time, a selection of old and new poems made by Šopov himself. Appointed editorial director of the publishing house Makedonska kniga (Macedonian Book). Chairman of the Board of the Struga Poetry Evenings. Awarded the Order of Labour with Red Flag. Travels to the USSR at the invitation of the Union of Soviet Writers.
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