Christov, Stoyan (village Conclades, Aegean Macedonia, 15. 1897 – Thompson House, Vest Dover, USA, 24. and 1996) – American writer, journalist, publicicist, political analyst and senator of Macedonian origin. In 1911 he emigrated to America. He worked as a physical worker. He graduated from Valparaizo University, Indiana. He worked as a journalist and editor of several newspapers in Chicago. He was a special correspondent from the Balkans for Chicagas Journal “Daily News” (1927-1929). With interrupts he worked as a freelance writer in New York (1929-1941). He was an analyst and lecturer at the Pentagon Department (1942- 1944). In 1952-1953 he stayed in the Balkans as a correspondent of the North American Journalist Association (Nana). In 1953, he wife Margaret Vuters Halell stayed in the Republic of Macedonia, after an invitation from Lazar Kolisevski and the House of Emigrants of Macedonia. He was a senator of the State of Vermont (1964-1973), with more social and humanitarian functions. In 1985, he again stayed in the Republic of Macedonia, when the academic title “Honorary Doctor of Philological Sciences” at the University of Skopje was elected as a correspondent member of MANU. Then the Foundation “Stoyan and Margaret Hristov” was established in the Writers’ Association of Macedonia. After death in 1995 Part of his archive was donated to MANU. His rich work covers about a hundred short stories, literary-historical and memoirs and novels. His glory to-anian mainly from his novels with Macedonian-American theme: “Mara” (1937), “This is my homeland” (1938), “My American pilgrimage” (1947) and “Eagle and the Stork” (1976). With the topic of Epirus and Turkish reign in the Balkans is the novel “The Lion of Ioannina” (1941). He is also the chronology for events in Macedonia from the Ilinden Uprising up to thirties “Heroes and Assassins” (1935). D. Cv.
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