Bogomil Gjuzel


Bogomil Gjuzel is a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator of Bulgarian origin.

Biography

Born in 1939 in Čačak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Gjuzel was the son of the Bulgarian revolutionary and philosopher Dimitar Gyuzelov. His mother, Donka Ivanova, was one of the founders of the Secret Bulgarian Cultural and Educational Organization in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Department of English at the University of Skopje, in 1963, and spent an academic year at the University of Edinburgh as a British Council scholar, 1964/65.

Work

Gjuzel was a dramaturge with the Dramski Theater in Skopje for two terms, 1966-1971 and 1985-1998. He participated in the at the University of Iowa in 1972-1973, and in the poetry festivals in Rotterdam, San Francisco, Herleen, Maastricht and Valencia. He was one of the ten founders of the association and its first chairman in 1994, and since 1995 editor-in-chief of its bi-monthly journal Naše Pismo. Since 1999 he has been an acting director of the Struga Poetry Evenings.
Gjuzel was the first editor of Shine Poetry.
Lech Miodinsky wrote and published a Ph.D. dissertation on his poetry: Bogomil Guzel, Poeticky dialogz natura i kultura, Katowice 1994, in Polish, translated and published in Macedonian in 1999.

Poetry