Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje

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 is a Macedonian

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 Ph.D.

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 in comparative literature

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 and literary theory

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 working in the Institute of Macedonian Literature at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia

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. He is also notable as a writer

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, essayist and a former member of the eminent Yugoslav rock band Idoli.

Biography

Aleksandar Prokopiev was born in 1953 in Skopje

Skopje

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, then a capital of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia

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, a constituent country

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 of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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. He graduated in 1977 at the University of Belgrade

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 Faculty of Philology

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, General and Comparative literature department, and finished postgraduate education

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 in 1982 also in Belgrade

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 and in Sorbonne

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, France

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.

He worked in several domestic and foreign magazines, for example as a member of the editorial board

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 of Orient Express (Oxford

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, UK) and World Haiku (Kyoto

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, Japan

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). He wrote screenplay

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s for film

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, theatre

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, tv shows, radio drama

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s and comic books. His works were translated in English, French

French language

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, Italian

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, Japanese

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, Russian

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, Polish

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, Hungarian

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, Czech

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, Slovak

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 and other languages.

Aleksandar Prokopiev was also an active musician

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. While studying in Belgrade he played with the Yugoslav rock band Idoli, an eminent act of the former Yugoslav New Wave

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 scene. It is claimed that he wrote the famous Idoli's song Retko te viđam sa devojkama, however he is not credited on the record itself (Vlada Divljan

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 is credited as the author instead). In Macedonia, Prokopiev was a member of the notable band Usta na Usta which was active during the 1980s. Its recordings were released by the music production branch of the national Macedonian Radio-Television

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