Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, 14 kilometres north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. The city stands at an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea region with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe, and is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre. It has been known since the Ottoman period as the "City of Consuls", since many European countries had consulates in Bitola.
Miodrag Pavlović was a Serbian poet, physician writer, critic and academic. Pavlović was twice nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize.
Olivera Nikolova is a Macedonian author who is considered to be one of the top novelists of her country. She was born is 1936 in Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, and worked as a screenwriter for radio and television programs.
Blaže Koneski was a Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar.
Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan is a Macedonian poet, essayist and literary critic.
Bogomil Gjuzel was a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator.
Mirče Acev was a Macedonian organizer of the Yugoslav communist resistance in Vardar Macedonia during World War II. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in Yugoslavia, after which he became a commander of the Yugoslav Partisans and was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia, on 29 July 1945.
Ljubomir Danailov Frčkoski is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus" in Public International Law, Contemporary Political Sciences and Negotiation in Identity conflicts.
Borislav Traikovski (1917–1996) is a Macedonian painter. One of the most famous Macedonian painters, Borislav Traikovski was born on June 15, 1917 in Bitola. He died on October 11, 1996 in Bitola.
Ljubomir Cuculovski is a Macedonian philosopher and professor in Skopje. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, with a thesis on The Sources of Bergson’s Theory of Knowledge. Then he received his master's title in sociological science in 1982, at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research in Skopje, with a thesis on Religion and Morality. He received his PhD in philosophical sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje in 1992, with a dissertation on Karl Marx: The Origin of Historical Materialism (1841–1849).
Petre Mito Andreevski was a famous Macedonian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. His most famous novel is the historical novel Pirej (1980) and his most famous poetry collection is Denicija (1968).
Georgi Konstantinovski was a Macedonian architect, writer and educator.
Aco Šopov 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 Macedonian in SR Macedonia after the war.
Dr. Ana Stojanoska, born 22 November 1977 in Prilep, SR Macedonia is a theatre researcher and writer.
Mile Nedelkoski was a Macedonian poet, novelist, storyteller, and playwright. In North Macedonia, he had a reputation for being a bulgarophile intellectual.
David (Ninov) is an Eastern Orthodox titular Bishop of Stobi and administrator of the Eparchy of Strumica of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, an autonomous church in the Republic of Macedonia, under the supreme jurisdiction of Serbian Orthodox Church.
Stefan Markovski is a contemporary Macedonian writer, screenwriter, poet, philosopher and translator.
Jasna Koteska is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic.
Ivan Čapovski is a Macedonian writer, poet and novelist. Macedonian: Иван Чаповски; also Ivan Čapovski; Capovskǐ, Ivan; Čapovski, Ivan 1936- ; Ivan Čapovski Macedonian writer; Чаповски Иван 1936- ; Иван Чаповски.
Ivan Mikulčić was a prominent archaeologist from North Macedonia.
