Name Bogomil Gjuzel | Role Poet | |
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Education Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje Books The Wolf at the Door: A Poetic Cycle | ||
Bogomil Gjuzel (Macedonian: Богомил Ѓузел, Bulgarian: Богомил Гюзел, [bɔɡɔmil ɟyˈzɛl], Serbian: Богомил Ђузел, born 1939) is a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator of Bulgarian origin, born in Serbia.
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Biography
Born in 1939 in Čačak, today Serbia, Gjuzel was the son of the Bulgarian revolutionary and philosopher Dimitar Gyuzelov. He graduated from the Department of English at the University of Skopje (Macedonia), in 1963, and spent an academic year at the University of Edinburgh as a British Council scholar, 1964/65.
Work
Gjuzel was a dramaturge with the Dramski Theater in Skopje for two terms, 1966-1971 and 1985-1998. He participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1972-1973, and in the poetry festivals in Rotterdam (1978 & 1996), San Francisco (1980), Herleen (1991), Maastricht and Valencia (2000). He was one of the ten founders of the Independent Writers of Macedonia association and its first chairman in 1994, and since 1995 editor-in-chief of its bi-monthly journal Naše Pismo. Since 1999 he has been an acting director of the Struga Poetry Evenings.
Gjuzel was the first editor of Shine Poetry.
Lech Miodinsky wrote and published a Ph.D. dissertation on his poetry: Bogomil Guzel, Poeticky dialogz natura i kultura, Katowice 1994, in Polish, translated and published in Macedonian in 1999.