This is a list of Macedonian writers: Macedonian historians, philosophers, scientists, laboratory specialists, authors, and writers who were born in present-day North Macedonia or published in standard/dialectal Macedonian.
Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Štip, where he was also educated. He continued his education in Skopje and graduated in law in Belgrade. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, he worked as a lawyer and participated in the partisan resistance. By the end of the war, he was an organiser of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, the predecessor of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia as a federal Yugoslav state.
The president of the Republic of North Macedonia is the head of state of North Macedonia.
The orthography of the Macedonian language includes an alphabet consisting of 31 letters, which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.
Mateja Matevski was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.
Kosta Apostolov Solev, primarily known by his pen name Kočo Racin, was a Macedonian poet, writer and communist who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature. He is also regarded as a founder of modern Macedonian poetry. Racin wrote in prose too and created some significant works with themes from history, philosophy, and literary critique. He also wrote in Serbian and Bulgarian.
Blaže Koneski was a Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar.
Stojan Andov was a Macedonian politician, a founding member of the Liberal Party of Macedonia, and a president of Assembly.
Venko Markovski, born Veniyamin Milanov Toshev was a Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.
Bogomil Gjuzel was a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator.
Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, North Macedonia. During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud Darwish, Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Allen Ginsberg, Bulat Okudzhava, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Artur Lundkvist, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nichita Stănescu, Ted Hughes, Ko Un, Adunis, Makoto Ooka, Miroslav Krleža, Yehuda Amichai, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, Bei Dao, Amir Or and domestic authors such as Blaže Koneski and Mateja Matevski.
Macedonian literature begins with the Ohrid Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire in 886. These first written works in the dialects of the Old Church Slavonic were religious. The school was established by St. Clement of Ohrid. The Macedonian recension at that time was part of the Old Church Slavonic and it did not represent one regional dialect but a generalized form of early Eastern South Slavic. The standardization of Macedonian in the 20th century provided good ground for further development of the modern Macedonian literature and this period is the richest one in the history of the literature itself.
Slavko Janevski was a Macedonian poet, prose and script writer. He was also active as a comics artist. He finished high school in Skopje. From 1945 onwards he was the editor of the first teenage magazine called "Pioneer". Janevski is the author of the first novel to be written in Macedonian, Seloto zad sedumte jaseni. As script writer he adapted the historical drama "Macedonian bloody wedding" in 1967. Janevski received many awards, among others "AVNOJ" 1968 and "Makedonsko slovo" for the book Thought. He is considered to have laid the foundations of the Macedonian literature.
Nikola "Kole" Čašule was a Macedonian-Yugoslavian essayist, dramatist, short story writer and ambassador. Chashule was one of the founders of the Macedonian Writers' Association and served as the organization's president.
Kiro Urdin is a visual, multimedia artist and film director. He is the artistic founder of the Planetarism movement. He represented France at the French Festival in Tapei, and the Republic of Macedonia at the Thessaloniki - Culture Capital of Europe ’97 event in Greece. His ballet 'Planetarium' and his film of the same name were performed at the United Nations 60th Anniversary. He is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Knight Order in the Order of Art and Literature of the French Republic.
Vasko Eftov is a freelance journalist from North Macedonia. He is mostly known as the editor and host of the political TV show titled Vo Centar.
Stefan Markovski is a Macedonian writer, screenwriter, poet, philosopher and translator.
Sovremenost is the oldest Macedonian magazine for literature, culture and art. It was created in 1951 as a direct successor of the first Macedonian magazine for art, science and social issues "Nov Den". The first issue of the first magazine for art, science and social issues, the monthly magazine "Nov Den" was published in October 1945. The new publication embraced principles of artistic pluralism, diversity and inclusivity with explicit rejection of imposition of stylistic uniformity.