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Grigor Prličev is one of the most talented and most productive
Macedonian writer from the period of the struggle from the cultural revival. He
was born in
Ohrid
in 1830 in a family of a extremely poor people. On his age of 6 months, his
father dies and leave on the world, alone 4 children including him. He started
his education with the help of his grandfather who teached him how to read, and
later he started going to school in Ohrid. Soon he becomes a student of the very
well known in that period Macedonian writer again
Dimitar Miladinov, and by his help he gets solid education.
He was a teacher some period and later he went in Athens to
study medicine. But he loved to write more than to study medicine, so he quit
the studies and went back to his old love. A result of his love is his famous
book called "Serdarot", by which he wins an anonyms concurs in Athens.
The book
is originally written on Greek, because he wrote it in Athens, in order to take
part in that concurs, and soon he translates it on macedonian. He founds out
about the tragically death if the both brothers Miladinovci,
Konstatin and
Dimitar and revolted he goes back in Macedonia, to take part in the
struggle for cultural revival against the Greek influence in the church, schools
etc... Because of his patriotical matters soon he finishes in prison in Ohrid
and in Debar. 1871 is an important year for Grigor Prlichev. He shows his
translation of "Ylijada" from Homer and he gets attacked politically by the
Bulgarian writer Hristo Botev, because he refused to translate it, on Bulgarian.
The last years of his life he spent in Solun (Salonica), where
he wrote his biography. He died in his native town, Ohrid in 1893. |
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