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Blaže Koneski

Blaže Koneski (Macedonian: Блаже Конески; 19 December 1921 – 7 December 1993) was a Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar.

Blaže Koneski
Koneski in 1968
Born
Blagoje Ljamević[1][2]

(1921-12-19)19 December 1921
Died7 December 1993(1993-12-07) (aged 71)
Skopje, Macedonia
NationalityYugoslav/Macedonian
Occupation(s)Writer, translator and linguistic scholar

His major contribution was to the codification of standard Macedonian.[3] He is the key figure who shaped Macedonian literature and intellectual life in the country.[4] However he has also been accused of serbianizing the Macedonian standard language.[5][6][7][8][9]

Biography edit

 
Blaže Koneski's birthplace, now a memorial house

Koneski was born in Nebregovo in the province of South Serbia, part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (current day North Macedonia). His family was strongly pro-Serbian and identified as Serbs since Ottoman times, with a long tradition of serving in the Serbian army and Serbian guerrillas,[10][11][12][13] especially his mother's uncle Gligor Sokolović who was a famous Serbian Chetnik voivode.[13][14][15] He received a Royal Serbian scholarship to study in the Kragujevac gymnasium or high school.[16] Later, he studied medicine at the University of Belgrade, and then changed to Serbian language and literature. In 1941, after the defeat of Yugoslavia in Aufmarsch 25, he enrolled in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University. After the Bulgarian coup d'état in September 1944, he returned to his native land, before completing his higher education. Here Koneski began working in the department for communist agitprop at the Main Headquarters of the Macedonian Partisans. However, in 1945 at the age of 23, he became one of the most important contributors to the standardization of Macedonian. He worked as a lector in the Macedonian National Theater, but in 1946, he joined the faculty at the Philosophy Department of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, where he worked until his retirement. In 1957 he received there the title of full professor. At the same time, he taught the subject of the history of the Macedonian language, and during his entire university career, he held the position of head of the Department of Macedonian Language and South Slavic Languages. In 1952/1953 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, and in 1958-1960 he was rector of the University of Skopje. Meanwhile, Koneski worked as an editor and was a prolific contributor to the literary journal "Nov Den", the predecessor of the oldest-survived literary journal "Sovremenost", and "Macedonian Language", published by the Institute for Macedonian language.

He became a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1967 and served as its first president, until 1975.[17] Koneski was also a member of the Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Łódź (Poland) Academies of Sciences and Arts, and an honorary doctor of the Universities of Chicago, United States, and Kraków in Poland.[18] The American Slavist Victor Friedman mentioned Koneski as one of his mentors.[19]

Blaže Koneski died in Skopje on December 7, 1993. He received a state funeral for his distinguished literary career and his contributions to the codification of standard Macedonian.

Literary works edit

Koneski wrote poetry and prose. His most famous collections of poetry are: Mostot, Pesni, Zemjata i ljubovta, Vezilka, Zapisi, Cesmite, Stari i novi pesni, Seizmograf, among others. His collection of short stories Vineyard Macedonian: Lozje is also famous.[20]

Koneski was a distinguished translator of poetry from German, Russian, Slovenian, Serbian and Polish; he translated the works of Njegos, Prešeren, Heine, Blok, Neruda, and others.[21]

Awards and recognitions edit

Blaže Koneski won a number of literary prizes such as the AVNOJ prize, the Njegoš prize, the Golden Wreath ("Zlaten Venec") of the Struga Poetry Evenings (in 1981), the Award of the Writer's Union of the USSR, Herder Prize (in 1971) and others.[22]

The Faculty of Philology at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje is named after him.

Work on standard Macedonian edit

Koneski is remembered for his work on codifying the Macedonian standard language. He is the author of On Standard Macedonian (Macedonian: За македонскиот литературен јазик), Grammar of Standard Macedonian (Macedonian: Граматика на македонскиот литературен јазик), History of Macedonian (Macedonian: Историја на македонскиот јазик), among other works.

He was one of the editors of Macedonian Dictionary (Macedonian: Речник на македонскиот јазик).

Criticism edit

Bulgarian linguists such as Iliya Talev, in his History of the Macedonian Language,[23] have accused Koneski of plagiarizing Kiril Mirchev's Historical Grammar of the Bulgarian Language because both authors analyzed the same corpus of texts.[24] In Bulgaria, he has also been accused of manipulating historical facts for political goals.[25] It has been also claimed there that the Macedonian standard was Serbianized with the help of Koneski.[26] As a young boy Koneski himself spoke a heavily Serbianized language and was ridiculed for this.[27] According to Christian Voss the turning point in the Serbianization of Macedonian took place in the late 1950s, coinciding with the preparation period for the dictionary of Koneski published between 1961 and 1966.[28] Voss argues that it contains a consistent pro-Serbian bias.[29] When he visited Chicago in 1969 and received the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa" from a local university, letters of protest were sent to the rector by two Albanian intellectuals from Bitola living in Istanbul, claiming the Macedonian language was invented by the Yugoslav Communists to de-Bulgarianize the local Slavs.[30] Today historical revisionists in the Republic of North Macedonia, who questioned the narrative established in Communist Yugoslavia,[31] have described the process of codifying Macedonian, to which Koneski was an important contributor, as 'Serbianization'.[32] Macedonian nationalists have also accused Koneski and the communist elite of Serbianizing the Macedonian standard language.[33] Similarly, Venko Markovski, who was one of the codifiers of the Macedonian standard, openly accused Koneski of Serbianizing the Macedonian language.[34]

Bibliography edit

Poetry and prose edit

  • Land and Love (poetry, 1948)
  • Poems (1953)
  • The Embroideress (poetry, 1955)
  • The Vineyard (short stories, 1955)
  • Poems (1963)
  • Sterna (poetry, 1966), Hand - Shaking (narrative poem, 1969)
  • Notes (poetry, 1974)
  • Poems Old and New (poetry, 1979)
  • Places and Moments (poetry, 1981)
  • The Fountains (poetry, 1984)
  • The Epistle (poetry, 1987)
  • Meeting in Heaven (poetry, 1988)
  • The Church (poetry 1988)
  • A Diary after Many Years (prose, 1988)
  • Golden Peak (poetry, 1989)
  • Seismograph (poetry, 1989)
  • The Heavenly River (poems and translations, 1991)
  • The Black Ram (poetry, 1993)

Academic and other works edit

  • Normative Guide with a Dictionary of Standard Macedonian with Krum Tošev (1950)
  • Grammar of Standard Macedonian (volume 1, 1952)
  • Standard Macedonian (1959)
  • A Grammar of Standard Macedonian (volume 2, 1954)
  • Macedonian Dictionary (1961)
  • A History of Macedonian (1965)
  • Macedonian Dictionary (volume 2, edited, 1965)
  • Macedonian Dictionary (volume 3, 1966)
  • The Language of the Macedonian Folk Poetry (1971)
  • Speeches and Essays (1972)
  • Macedonian Textbooks of 19th Century: Linguistic, Literary, Historical Texts (1986)
  • Images and Themes (essays, 1987)
  • The Tikveš Anthology (study, 1987)
  • Poetry (Konstantin Miladinov), the Way Blaze Koneski Reads It (1989)
  • Macedonian Locations and Topics (essays, 1991)
  • The World of the Legend and the Song (essays, 1993)

References edit

  1. ^ Потомствено Сръбоманство promacedonia.org
  2. ^ Среќен роденден Блаже Конески 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine time.mk
  3. ^ Balázs Trencsenyi; Michal Kopeček; Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič; Maria Falina; Mónika Baár (2018). A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II, Part II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' (1968 and Beyond), Volume 2. Oxford University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 9780198829607.
  4. ^ E. Kramer, Christina (2015). "Macedonian orthographic controversies". The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling. 18 (2): 287–308. doi:10.1075/wll.18.2.07kra.
  5. ^ ...However this was not at all the case, as Koneski himself testifies. The use of the schwa is one of the most important points of dispute not only between Bulgarians and Macedonians, but also between Macedonians themselves – there are circles in Macedonia who in the beginning of the 1990s denounced its exclusion from the standard language as a hostile act of violent serbianization... For more see: Alexandra Ioannidou (Athens, Jena) Koneski, his successors and the peculiar narrative of a “late standardization” in the Balkans. in Romanica et Balcanica: Wolfgang Dahmen zum 65. Geburtstag, Volume 7 of Jenaer Beiträge zur Romanistik with Thede Kahl, Johannes Kramer and Elton Prifti as ed., Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM, 2015, ISBN 3954770369, pp. 367-375.
  6. ^ Kronsteiner, Otto, Zerfall Jugoslawiens und die Zukunft der makedonischen Literatursprache : Der späte Fall von Glottotomie? in: Die slawischen Sprachen (1992) 29, 142-171.
  7. ^ The historical rereading was accompanied by revisionism targeting the codification of the Macedonian standard language after 1944, which was described as a deliberate process of linguistic ‘Serbization’. See especially the entries on Blaže Koneski, the most important linguistic codifier, in the encyclopedic dictionaries of Stojan Kiselinovski et al., Makedonski istoriski rečnik (Skopje: INI, 2000); Stojan Kiselinovski, Makedonski dejci (XX-ti vek) (Skopje: Makavej, 2002). Cf. the critique of Novica Veljanovski, former chief of the academic Institute of National History in Skopje: “’Objektiviziranjeto’ na Stojan Kiselinovski”, Utrinski vesnik, January 27, 2003, “Kiselinovski gi politizira istoriskite ličnosti”, Utrinski vesnik, January 28, 2003. See also Victor Friedman, “The first philological conference for the establishment of the Macedonian alphabet and the Macedonian literary language: its precedents and consequences”, in The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The “First Congress” Phenomenon, ed. Joshua Fishman (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993), 159-180, etc.
  8. ^ Voss, Christian. “Sprach- Und Geschichtsrevision in Makedonien: Zur Dekonstruktion von Blaže Koneski.” Osteuropa, vol. 51, no. 8, 2001, pp. 953–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44921774. Accessed 30 Aug. 2022.
  9. ^ Unfortunately, the attacks of the neo-nationalist, anti-Yugoslav Macedonians on Koneski did not begin in the early 21st century (p. 9). Rather, they began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, while Koneski was still alive. Risteski (1988) was an indirect attack on Koneski, but by the early 1990s, the right-wing press was full of direct attacks accusing Koneski of “Serbianizing” Macedonian. The chief focus of these attacks was the exclusion of ъ from Macedonian Cyrillic. Language Issues in former Yugoslav Space: A Commentary Victor A. Friedman doi: 10.12681/awpel.22594
  10. ^ When in 1912 Vardar Macedonia was annexed by Serbian Kingdom, Koneski's grandfather (Kone Ljamević) and his father (Ordan Ljamević) became associates of the Serbian authorities and directly participated in the persecution of pro-Bulgarian IMRO revolutionaries and their families in Prilep. In 1915, after the expulsion of Serbian administration by the Bulgarian Army, because their activity as a Serbian agents both went into hiding. They managed to save themselves and hide for 3 years in Prilep, staying alive. After the First World War, the Serbs came back into Vardar Macedonia and Ordan and Kone Ljamević, were granted with administrative positions in the local municipality for their pro-Serbian activity. For more see: Драгни Драгнев, Скопската икона Блаже Конески, македонски лингвист или сръбски политработник? (Македонски научен институт, София, 1998) стр. 7-10. (in Bulgarian).
  11. ^ The philologist Georgi Kiselinov, who participated in the first committee on the standardization of Macedonian in 1945, felt in severe confrontation with Koneski and was removed from participation. He wrote on that case: "I have long thought about the confrontation for which I have given absolutely no cause... In the former Turkish times for legitimacy, on every man was given a certificate. It contained various general data, and among others, the person's nationality. In my father's certificate and in mine was written a Bulgarian nationality, while in Koneski's father's certificate it was written a Serbian nationality. Here was all the reason for Koneski's hatred to me. I was educated in pro-Bulgarian spirit, and Koneski in pro-Serbian." For more see: Ристески, Стојан. Табу-темата Киселинов-Конески. Издание: „Македонска книга". Охрид. 1994, с. 99.
  12. ^ Bechev, Dimitar (2009). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. Scarecrow Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0810862951. Koneski was born in Nebregovo, near Prilep, to a pro-Serbian family.
  13. ^ a b Chris, Kostov (2010). Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996. Peter Lang. p. 12. ISBN 978-3034301961. In fact Blaze Koneski, born in Vardar Macedonia to a family with a long tradition of serving in the Serbian army and Serbian guerrillas, known as chetniks, considered Serbian to be his native language.
  14. ^ Andreevski, C. (1991). Razgovori so Koneski (in Macedonian). Skopje: Kultura. p. 76. Нашето село и некои други околни села инклинираа кон српската пропаганда. За тој пресврт е заслужен еден братучед на мојот татко, војводата Глигор Соколовиќ. Тој е познат како раководител на српска чета.
  15. ^ In the ten volumes of folk tales by Marko Tsepenkov, which have been republished 3 times in SR Macedonia, at the end of the tenth volume of the first edition is the folk song about Grigor Sokolovic. The song sharply criticizes his serbianization and de-bulgarization. Subsequently, the editors noticed this and as a result in the next two editions this folk song is already missing. For more see: Младен Сърбиновски, (2018) Македонизмът: триумфът на нищото. УИ „Св. св. Кирил и Методий, Велико Търново, ISBN 9786192082079, стр. 234.
  16. ^ Roumen Dontchev Daskalov; Tchavdar Marinov (2013). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. BRILL. p. 452; 461–462; 477. ISBN 9789004250765.
  17. ^ Dimitar Bechev (3 September 2019). Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 170. ISBN 9781538119624.
  18. ^ Blesok:Blaze Koneski[better source needed] December 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ Victor Friedman, "Diferencijacija na makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik vo balkanskiot kontekst" (The differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in a Balkan context), in Jazicite na počvata na Makedonija. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1996. pp. 75-82. (in Macedonian)
  20. ^ Blesok:Blaže Koneski[better source needed] . Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  21. ^ Kujundžiski, Žarko (March–April 2003). "Blaže Koneski kako tekstoven preveduvač i zaveduvač" [Blaže Koneski as a textual translator and seducer]. blesok.com.mk. 31 (in Macedonian). Kulturna ustanova "Blesok". p. 1/8. ISSN 1409-6900. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  22. ^ Diversity: Blazhe Koneski July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Slavistische Beiträge, Volumes 67–69, Talev, Iliya, Publisher: Sagner, 1973, pp. 154-159.
  24. ^ Marinov, Tchavdar (2013). "In Defense of the Native Tongue: The Standardization of the Macedonian Language and the Bulgarian-Macedonian Linguistic Controversies". In Daskalov, Roumen; Marinov, Tchavdar (eds.). Entangled Histories of the Balkans. Vol. One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. Leiden: Brill. p. 462. ISBN 978-9004250765. They (Bulgarian linguists) regarded, for instance, Koneski's History of the Macedonian Language as a plagiarism and "falsification" of the Historical Grammar of the Bulgarian Language written by Kiril Mircheva, a Bulgarian scholar originating from Bitola.
  25. ^ This is eloquently formulated in May 1945 in a statement of Blaže Koneski who is later proclaimed in Yugoslavia as the "creator" of the Macedonian language – "The future is ours. And this means that the past is ours also." Political power exercised by the communist state ensures the power over the future which guarantees also the monopoly over history. Remembrance in time, Transilvania University Press, ISBN 978-606-19-0134-0, Bulgaria and the Bulgarians in the ideology of Yugoslav communists, Milen Mihov, p. 272. May 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ The Implementation of Standard Macedonian: Problems and Results Victor A. Friedman University of Chicago Published in: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 131, 1998. 31-57.
  27. ^ "When Blaze Koneski, the founder of the Macedonian standard language, as a young boy, returned to his Macedonian native village from the Serbian town where he went to school, he was ridiculed for his Serbianized language." Cornelis H. van Schooneveld, Linguarum: Series maior, Issue 20, Mouton., 1966, p. 295.
  28. ^ "The irreversible turning point of Serbianisation of the Macedonian standard took place in the late 1950s. What had happened? The political refugees from Greek Macedonia scattered in the Eastern Bloc were under the control of the Moscow-oriented Greek Communist party which undertook considerable efforts to foster a style of Macedonian identity that was anti-Yugoslav by printing books and newspapers in a language heavily influenced by Bulgarian. This culture policy of Macedonians in exile “threatened the very fabric of Yugoslavia” (Brown 2003:32). Although the authors of these newspapers were not willing to accept – in their own words – the “Vardar language”, in 1956 they were forced to give up their ethnolinguistic experiments within the framework of destalinization and political thaw. The Macedonian issue – once the bone of contention between young nation-states, in the 1940-1950s took the same role in the rivalry of the Communist parties of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece. The end of Moscow’s support for the contestation of standard Macedonian’s legitimacy from abroad coincided with the period of excerption for the Macedonian dictionary of Blaže Koneski. This dictionary marked the end of the initial period of implementation of the standard, which was characterized by a strong indigenous impact trying to nativize the lexicon and to avoid Serbian and Bulgarian loans as well." For more see: Voss C., The Macedonian Standard Language: Tito—Yugoslav Experiment or Symbol of ‘Great Macedonian’ Ethnic Inclusion? in C. Mar-Molinero, P. Stevenson as ed. Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices: Language and the Future of Europe, Springer, 2016, ISBN 0230523889, p. 126.
  29. ^ De Gruyter as contributor. The Slavic Languages. Volume 32 of Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014, p. 1472. ISBN 3110215470.
  30. ^ Македонските Бугари и Албанците заедно во борбата со југословенскиот комунизам
  31. ^ "Group of Macedonian historians whose work has stirred controversy in the 1990s and 2000s. Famous representatives include Zoran Todorovski, the head of the State Archive in Skopje, Stojan Kiselinovski, Violeta Ackoska, and Stojan Risteski." Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0810862956, p. 189.
  32. ^ Sociétés politiques comparées, #25, mai 2010, Tchavdar Marinov, Historiographical Revisionism and Re-Articulation of Memory in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia p. 7.
  33. ^ Lerner W. Goetingen, Formation of the standard language - Macedonian in the Slavic languages, Volume 32, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, 2014, ISBN 3110393689, chapter 109.
  34. ^ Chris, Kostov (2010). Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996. Peter Lang. p. 88. ISBN 978-3034301961. [V]enko Markovski ... dared to oppose Koneski's ideas on the Serbianization of the Macedonian language.

Further reading edit

  • Угринова-Скаловска, Радмила (1996), "Блаже Конески", Slovo (in Macedonian), 44-45-46, Old Church Slavonic Institute (published September 1996): 201–204
Preceded by President of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia
1961-1964
Succeeded by

blaže, koneski, macedonian, Блаже, Конески, december, 1921, december, 1993, macedonian, poet, writer, literary, translator, linguistic, scholar, koneski, 1968bornblagoje, ljamević, 1921, december, 1921nebregovo, kingdom, serbs, croats, slovenesdied7, december,. Blaze Koneski Macedonian Blazhe Koneski 19 December 1921 7 December 1993 was a Macedonian poet writer literary translator and linguistic scholar Blaze KoneskiKoneski in 1968BornBlagoje Ljamevic 1 2 1921 12 19 19 December 1921Nebregovo Kingdom of Serbs Croats and SlovenesDied7 December 1993 1993 12 07 aged 71 Skopje MacedoniaNationalityYugoslav MacedonianOccupation s Writer translator and linguistic scholarHis major contribution was to the codification of standard Macedonian 3 He is the key figure who shaped Macedonian literature and intellectual life in the country 4 However he has also been accused of serbianizing the Macedonian standard language 5 6 7 8 9 Contents 1 Biography 2 Literary works 3 Awards and recognitions 4 Work on standard Macedonian 5 Criticism 6 Bibliography 6 1 Poetry and prose 6 2 Academic and other works 7 References 8 Further readingBiography edit nbsp Blaze Koneski s birthplace now a memorial houseKoneski was born in Nebregovo in the province of South Serbia part of the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes current day North Macedonia His family was strongly pro Serbian and identified as Serbs since Ottoman times with a long tradition of serving in the Serbian army and Serbian guerrillas 10 11 12 13 especially his mother s uncle Gligor Sokolovic who was a famous Serbian Chetnik voivode 13 14 15 He received a Royal Serbian scholarship to study in the Kragujevac gymnasium or high school 16 Later he studied medicine at the University of Belgrade and then changed to Serbian language and literature In 1941 after the defeat of Yugoslavia in Aufmarsch 25 he enrolled in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University After the Bulgarian coup d etat in September 1944 he returned to his native land before completing his higher education Here Koneski began working in the department for communist agitprop at the Main Headquarters of the Macedonian Partisans However in 1945 at the age of 23 he became one of the most important contributors to the standardization of Macedonian He worked as a lector in the Macedonian National Theater but in 1946 he joined the faculty at the Philosophy Department of the Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje where he worked until his retirement In 1957 he received there the title of full professor At the same time he taught the subject of the history of the Macedonian language and during his entire university career he held the position of head of the Department of Macedonian Language and South Slavic Languages In 1952 1953 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1958 1960 he was rector of the University of Skopje Meanwhile Koneski worked as an editor and was a prolific contributor to the literary journal Nov Den the predecessor of the oldest survived literary journal Sovremenost and Macedonian Language published by the Institute for Macedonian language He became a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1967 and served as its first president until 1975 17 Koneski was also a member of the Zagreb Croatia Belgrade Serbia Ljubljana Slovenia and Lodz Poland Academies of Sciences and Arts and an honorary doctor of the Universities of Chicago United States and Krakow in Poland 18 The American Slavist Victor Friedman mentioned Koneski as one of his mentors 19 Blaze Koneski died in Skopje on December 7 1993 He received a state funeral for his distinguished literary career and his contributions to the codification of standard Macedonian Literary works editKoneski wrote poetry and prose His most famous collections of poetry are Mostot Pesni Zemjata i ljubovta Vezilka Zapisi Cesmite Stari i novi pesni Seizmograf among others His collection of short stories Vineyard Macedonian Lozje is also famous 20 Koneski was a distinguished translator of poetry from German Russian Slovenian Serbian and Polish he translated the works of Njegos Preseren Heine Blok Neruda and others 21 Awards and recognitions editBlaze Koneski won a number of literary prizes such as the AVNOJ prize the Njegos prize the Golden Wreath Zlaten Venec of the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1981 the Award of the Writer s Union of the USSR Herder Prize in 1971 and others 22 The Faculty of Philology at the Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje is named after him Work on standard Macedonian editKoneski is remembered for his work on codifying the Macedonian standard language He is the author of On Standard Macedonian Macedonian Za makedonskiot literaturen јazik Grammar of Standard Macedonian Macedonian Gramatika na makedonskiot literaturen јazik History of Macedonian Macedonian Istoriјa na makedonskiot јazik among other works He was one of the editors of Macedonian Dictionary Macedonian Rechnik na makedonskiot јazik Criticism editBulgarian linguists such as Iliya Talev in his History of the Macedonian Language 23 have accused Koneski of plagiarizing Kiril Mirchev s Historical Grammar of the Bulgarian Language because both authors analyzed the same corpus of texts 24 In Bulgaria he has also been accused of manipulating historical facts for political goals 25 It has been also claimed there that the Macedonian standard was Serbianized with the help of Koneski 26 As a young boy Koneski himself spoke a heavily Serbianized language and was ridiculed for this 27 According to Christian Voss the turning point in the Serbianization of Macedonian took place in the late 1950s coinciding with the preparation period for the dictionary of Koneski published between 1961 and 1966 28 Voss argues that it contains a consistent pro Serbian bias 29 When he visited Chicago in 1969 and received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from a local university letters of protest were sent to the rector by two Albanian intellectuals from Bitola living in Istanbul claiming the Macedonian language was invented by the Yugoslav Communists to de Bulgarianize the local Slavs 30 Today historical revisionists in the Republic of North Macedonia who questioned the narrative established in Communist Yugoslavia 31 have described the process of codifying Macedonian to which Koneski was an important contributor as Serbianization 32 Macedonian nationalists have also accused Koneski and the communist elite of Serbianizing the Macedonian standard language 33 Similarly Venko Markovski who was one of the codifiers of the Macedonian standard openly accused Koneski of Serbianizing the Macedonian language 34 Bibliography editPoetry and prose edit Land and Love poetry 1948 Poems 1953 The Embroideress poetry 1955 The Vineyard short stories 1955 Poems 1963 Sterna poetry 1966 Hand Shaking narrative poem 1969 Notes poetry 1974 Poems Old and New poetry 1979 Places and Moments poetry 1981 The Fountains poetry 1984 The Epistle poetry 1987 Meeting in Heaven poetry 1988 The Church poetry 1988 A Diary after Many Years prose 1988 Golden Peak poetry 1989 Seismograph poetry 1989 The Heavenly River poems and translations 1991 The Black Ram poetry 1993 Academic and other works edit Normative Guide with a Dictionary of Standard Macedonian with Krum Tosev 1950 Grammar of Standard Macedonian volume 1 1952 Standard Macedonian 1959 A Grammar of Standard Macedonian volume 2 1954 Macedonian Dictionary 1961 A History of Macedonian 1965 Macedonian Dictionary volume 2 edited 1965 Macedonian Dictionary volume 3 1966 The Language of the Macedonian Folk Poetry 1971 Speeches and Essays 1972 Macedonian Textbooks of 19th Century Linguistic Literary Historical Texts 1986 Images and Themes essays 1987 The Tikves Anthology study 1987 Poetry Konstantin Miladinov the Way Blaze Koneski Reads It 1989 Macedonian Locations and Topics essays 1991 The World of the Legend and the Song essays 1993 References edit Potomstveno Srbomanstvo promacedonia org Sreќen rodenden Blazhe Koneski Archived 2015 07 21 at the Wayback Machine time mk Balazs Trencsenyi Michal Kopecek Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic Maria Falina Monika Baar 2018 A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II Part II Negotiating Modernity in the Short Twentieth Century 1968 and Beyond Volume 2 Oxford University Press pp 12 13 ISBN 9780198829607 E Kramer Christina 2015 Macedonian orthographic controversies The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling 18 2 287 308 doi 10 1075 wll 18 2 07kra However this was not at all the case as Koneski himself testifies The use of the schwa is one of the most important points of dispute not only between Bulgarians and Macedonians but also between Macedonians themselves there are circles in Macedonia who in the beginning of the 1990s denounced its exclusion from the standard language as a hostile act of violent serbianization For more see Alexandra Ioannidou Athens Jena Koneski his successors and the peculiar narrative of a late standardization in the Balkans in Romanica et Balcanica Wolfgang Dahmen zum 65 Geburtstag Volume 7 of Jenaer Beitrage zur Romanistik with Thede Kahl Johannes Kramer and Elton Prifti as ed Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft Munchen AVM 2015 ISBN 3954770369 pp 367 375 Kronsteiner Otto Zerfall Jugoslawiens und die Zukunft der makedonischen Literatursprache Der spate Fall von Glottotomie in Die slawischen Sprachen 1992 29 142 171 The historical rereading was accompanied by revisionism targeting the codification of the Macedonian standard language after 1944 which was described as a deliberate process of linguistic Serbization See especially the entries on Blaze Koneski the most important linguistic codifier in the encyclopedic dictionaries of Stojan Kiselinovski et al Makedonski istoriski recnik Skopje INI 2000 Stojan Kiselinovski Makedonski dejci XX ti vek Skopje Makavej 2002 Cf the critique of Novica Veljanovski former chief of the academic Institute of National History in Skopje Objektiviziranjeto na Stojan Kiselinovski Utrinski vesnik January 27 2003 Kiselinovski gi politizira istoriskite licnosti Utrinski vesnik January 28 2003 See also Victor Friedman The first philological conference for the establishment of the Macedonian alphabet and the Macedonian literary language its precedents and consequences in The Earliest Stage of Language Planning The First Congress Phenomenon ed Joshua Fishman Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 1993 159 180 etc Voss Christian Sprach Und Geschichtsrevision in Makedonien Zur Dekonstruktion von Blaze Koneski Osteuropa vol 51 no 8 2001 pp 953 67 JSTOR http www jstor org stable 44921774 Accessed 30 Aug 2022 Unfortunately the attacks of the neo nationalist anti Yugoslav Macedonians on Koneski did not begin in the early 21st century p 9 Rather they began in the late 1980s and early 1990s while Koneski was still alive Risteski 1988 was an indirect attack on Koneski but by the early 1990s the right wing press was full of direct attacks accusing Koneski of Serbianizing Macedonian The chief focus of these attacks was the exclusion of from Macedonian Cyrillic Language Issues in former Yugoslav Space A Commentary Victor A Friedman doi 10 12681 awpel 22594 When in 1912 Vardar Macedonia was annexed by Serbian Kingdom Koneski s grandfather Kone Ljamevic and his father Ordan Ljamevic became associates of the Serbian authorities and directly participated in the persecution of pro Bulgarian IMRO revolutionaries and their families in Prilep In 1915 after the expulsion of Serbian administration by the Bulgarian Army because their activity as a Serbian agents both went into hiding They managed to save themselves and hide for 3 years in Prilep staying alive After the First World War the Serbs came back into Vardar Macedonia and Ordan and Kone Ljamevic were granted with administrative positions in the local municipality for their pro Serbian activity For more see Dragni Dragnev Skopskata ikona Blazhe Koneski makedonski lingvist ili srbski politrabotnik Makedonski nauchen institut Sofiya 1998 str 7 10 in Bulgarian The philologist Georgi Kiselinov who participated in the first committee on the standardization of Macedonian in 1945 felt in severe confrontation with Koneski and was removed from participation He wrote on that case I have long thought about the confrontation for which I have given absolutely no cause In the former Turkish times for legitimacy on every man was given a certificate It contained various general data and among others the person s nationality In my father s certificate and in mine was written a Bulgarian nationality while in Koneski s father s certificate it was written a Serbian nationality Here was all the reason for Koneski s hatred to me I was educated in pro Bulgarian spirit and Koneski in pro Serbian For more see Risteski Stoјan Tabu temata Kiselinov Koneski Izdanie Makedonska kniga Ohrid 1994 s 99 Bechev Dimitar 2009 Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia Scarecrow Press p 219 ISBN 978 0810862951 Koneski was born in Nebregovo near Prilep to a pro Serbian family a b Chris Kostov 2010 Contested Ethnic Identity The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto 1900 1996 Peter Lang p 12 ISBN 978 3034301961 In fact Blaze Koneski born in Vardar Macedonia to a family with a long tradition of serving in the Serbian army and Serbian guerrillas known as chetniks considered Serbian to be his native language Andreevski C 1991 Razgovori so Koneski in Macedonian Skopje Kultura p 76 Nasheto selo i nekoi drugi okolni sela inkliniraa kon srpskata propaganda Za toј presvrt e zasluzhen eden bratuched na moјot tatko voјvodata Gligor Sokoloviќ Toј e poznat kako rakovoditel na srpska cheta In the ten volumes of folk tales by Marko Tsepenkov which have been republished 3 times in SR Macedonia at the end of the tenth volume of the first edition is the folk song about Grigor Sokolovic The song sharply criticizes his serbianization and de bulgarization Subsequently the editors noticed this and as a result in the next two editions this folk song is already missing For more see Mladen Srbinovski 2018 Makedonizmt triumft na nishoto UI Sv sv Kiril i Metodij Veliko Trnovo ISBN 9786192082079 str 234 Roumen Dontchev Daskalov Tchavdar Marinov 2013 Entangled Histories of the Balkans Volume One National Ideologies and Language Policies BRILL p 452 461 462 477 ISBN 9789004250765 Dimitar Bechev 3 September 2019 Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia 2nd ed Rowman amp Littlefield p 170 ISBN 9781538119624 Blesok Blaze Koneski better source needed Archived December 3 2007 at the Wayback Machine Victor Friedman Diferencijacija na makedonskiot i bugarskiot jazik vo balkanskiot kontekst The differentiation of Macedonian and Bulgarian in a Balkan context in Jazicite na pocvata na Makedonija Skopje Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 pp 75 82 in Macedonian Blesok Blaze Koneski better source needed Submit search form Archived from the original on December 3 2007 Retrieved December 6 2009 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Kujundziski Zarko March April 2003 Blaze Koneski kako tekstoven preveduvac i zaveduvac Blaze Koneski as a textual translator and seducer blesok com mk 31 in Macedonian Kulturna ustanova Blesok p 1 8 ISSN 1409 6900 Retrieved 28 August 2013 Diversity Blazhe Koneski Archived July 22 2011 at the Wayback Machine Slavistische Beitrage Volumes 67 69 Talev Iliya Publisher Sagner 1973 pp 154 159 Marinov Tchavdar 2013 In Defense of the Native Tongue The Standardization of the Macedonian Language and the Bulgarian Macedonian Linguistic Controversies In Daskalov Roumen Marinov Tchavdar eds Entangled Histories of the Balkans Vol One National Ideologies and Language Policies Leiden Brill p 462 ISBN 978 9004250765 They Bulgarian linguists regarded for instance Koneski s History of the Macedonian Language as a plagiarism and falsification of the Historical Grammar of the Bulgarian Language written by Kiril Mircheva a Bulgarian scholar originating from Bitola This is eloquently formulated in May 1945 in a statement of Blaze Koneski who is later proclaimed in Yugoslavia as the creator of the Macedonian language The future is ours And this means that the past is ours also Political power exercised by the communist state ensures the power over the future which guarantees also the monopoly over history Remembrance in time Transilvania University Press ISBN 978 606 19 0134 0 Bulgaria and the Bulgarians in the ideology of Yugoslav communists Milen Mihov p 272 Archived May 12 2014 at the Wayback Machine The Implementation of Standard Macedonian Problems and Results Victor A Friedman University of Chicago Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language Vol 131 1998 31 57 When Blaze Koneski the founder of the Macedonian standard language as a young boy returned to his Macedonian native village from the Serbian town where he went to school he was ridiculed for his Serbianized language Cornelis H van Schooneveld Linguarum Series maior Issue 20 Mouton 1966 p 295 The irreversible turning point of Serbianisation of the Macedonian standard took place in the late 1950s What had happened The political refugees from Greek Macedonia scattered in the Eastern Bloc were under the control of the Moscow oriented Greek Communist party which undertook considerable efforts to foster a style of Macedonian identity that was anti Yugoslav by printing books and newspapers in a language heavily influenced by Bulgarian This culture policy of Macedonians in exile threatened the very fabric of Yugoslavia Brown 2003 32 Although the authors of these newspapers were not willing to accept in their own words the Vardar language in 1956 they were forced to give up their ethnolinguistic experiments within the framework of destalinization and political thaw The Macedonian issue once the bone of contention between young nation states in the 1940 1950s took the same role in the rivalry of the Communist parties of the Soviet Union Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Greece The end of Moscow s support for the contestation of standard Macedonian s legitimacy from abroad coincided with the period of excerption for the Macedonian dictionary of Blaze Koneski This dictionary marked the end of the initial period of implementation of the standard which was characterized by a strong indigenous impact trying to nativize the lexicon and to avoid Serbian and Bulgarian loans as well For more see Voss C The Macedonian Standard Language Tito Yugoslav Experiment or Symbol of Great Macedonian Ethnic Inclusion in C Mar Molinero P Stevenson as ed Language Ideologies Policies and Practices Language and the Future of Europe Springer 2016 ISBN 0230523889 p 126 De Gruyter as contributor The Slavic Languages Volume 32 of Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science HSK Walter de Gruyter GmbH amp Co KG 2014 p 1472 ISBN 3110215470 Makedonskite Bugari i Albancite zaedno vo borbata so јugoslovenskiot komunizam Group of Macedonian historians whose work has stirred controversy in the 1990s and 2000s Famous representatives include Zoran Todorovski the head of the State Archive in Skopje Stojan Kiselinovski Violeta Ackoska and Stojan Risteski Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia Dimitar Bechev Scarecrow Press 2009 ISBN 0810862956 p 189 Societes politiques comparees 25 mai 2010 Tchavdar Marinov Historiographical Revisionism and Re Articulation of Memory in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia p 7 Lerner W Goetingen Formation of the standard language Macedonian in the Slavic languages Volume 32 Walter de Gruyter GmbH amp Co KG 2014 ISBN 3110393689 chapter 109 Chris Kostov 2010 Contested Ethnic Identity The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto 1900 1996 Peter Lang p 88 ISBN 978 3034301961 V enko Markovski dared to oppose Koneski s ideas on the Serbianization of the Macedonian language Further reading editUgrinova Skalovska Radmila 1996 Blazhe Koneski Slovo in Macedonian 44 45 46 Old Church Slavonic Institute published September 1996 201 204 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blaze Koneski Preceded byMiroslav Krleza President of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia1961 1964 Succeeded byMesa 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