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Anton Panov was born in Star Dojran
in 1906, and he died in Strumica
in 1967. He attended primary school in Dojran and later, education in
Strumica and Belgrade under hard material conditions. He was interested in
music and the play righting (the theater) and also narrating.
"I am very happy that I am a
Macedonian and that I belong to the first generation of Macedonian writers
that dared, under bad conditions and even worse period, to be the first to write
in
Macedonian language."
That's how Anton Panov started his speech, made for 40
years anniversary of his work as a writer. To the collection of his arts belong many songs,
stories, dramas... First he attended as a singer in the Opera House of Belgrade,
until 1936. Then he writes the first and only one songs "Vrni se vo
dom", on Macedonian. There are many books dating from 1928-1938. They are
"Rodendenot na Serjozha Jegorkin (1928)", then, "Ordenot Sveti
Sava (1932)", "Go jadele bolvi (1929)", "Tinka (1930)"
and "Beda vo kolibata (1938)". Also other famous books are "Chapa
(1946)" and "Belushi (1952)". In 1951 he wrote his well known
drama, under the name "Stega", which later he chages to "Veronika
Samarak". There are also 2 dramas other but not that famous as the previous
one, "Pilikamnik (1948)", about the lives of the Dojran fishermen and
"Prerodeni (1949)".
In the Macedonian literature Panov is a famous drama
writer. His play "Pečalbari" is written in Macedonian language in
1936, a time when the use of the Macedonian language was forbidden. The play has
been played in a lot of theaters, among which the theaters in Belgrade and
Skopje. The first play of this drama was in Skopje in 1936, where 37 plays were
done seen by 11.305 visitors and the next 1937 year, by 7739, but played only 17
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