Smatacalev, Michael (Serez, Aegean part of Macedonia, 15. ⅹⅰⅰ 1910 – Sofia, 16. 1998) – poet, storyteller, journalist, publicist, revolutionary. He finished right at the Sofia University. One of the most prominent activists of advanced Macedonian emigration in Bulgaria between the two world wars. Twice the VMRO (V. Mihailov) condemned death. He was a member of VMRO (united), the company “Nation and Culture” and Mons (Macedonian General Study-Michael Smatacalev Dentian Union). One of the editors of the “Macedonian Student Sheet”, the “Macedonian Student Tribune”, the “Macedonian Flag”, “Macedonian News” and “Literary Critic”. Member of the Governing Core of the Macedonian literary circle (1938-1941), president of the Macedonian literary circle “Nikola Vaptsharov” (1945-1948) and the literary circle of students from Pirin Macedonia (1950-1951). He wrote in Bulgarian. The poetry “Storm above the birth” (1935) determines the Macedonian literary criticism as a book that the Macedonian themes entered the “big door in the literature”. The speciality of the Macedonian nation and the struggle of the Macedonian people for national and social rights and freedoms is a topic in its six-day journalistic and publicist engagement. BIB: Storm above birth, Sof., 1935; Selected verses, SK., 1991; Macedonian literary circle, SK., 1993; Moders’ broadens of the homeland, SK., 1994; On Macedonian topics, SK., 1999. Lit.: Gane Todorovski, the sound breath of the homeland, SK, 1992; Blaze Ristovski, Attachment to Macedonian literary history, “modernity”. Ⅹⅳ, 5, Skopje, May 1964, 512-514; Same: Macedonian Chronicle, REC. 2, SK., 1993; Vasil Tocinovski, Joven Buntar and Booker, SK., 1994. V. Tot. Bosko Smakooski
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Кириличен напис СМАТРАКАЛЕВ, Михаил