Risto Krle (September 3, 1900–October 29, 1975) (born in Struga

Struga

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, present-day Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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 during the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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) was a Macedonian

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The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 playwright

Playwright

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 and the son of a shoe maker. Many interruptions made his schooling difficult. As a teenager he enrolled in the army

Army

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 where he served until he inherited his father's profession and succeeded as a shoe maker. Many of his plays were written throughout the Second World War and are set preceding or during the First

First Balkan War

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 and Second Balkan War

Second Balkan War

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Works

• Money is Death (1938) (Macedonian: Парите се Отепувачка, transliterated Parite Se Otepuvačka)
• Millions of Martyrs (1940) (Милиони Маченици, Milioni Mačenici)
• Antica (1940) (Антица)
• Easter (1950) (Великден, Velikden)
• Count Milivoj (1958) (Гроф Миливој, Grof Milivoj)
• Autobiography (1990) (Автобиографија, Avtobiografija)