Slavko Janevski

Born January 11, 1920
Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Republic of North Macedonia)
Died January 20, 2000 (aged 80)
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Occupations writer, or and comic artist
Years active 1945–2000

Slavko Janevski (January 11, 1920 – January 20, 2000) was a Macedonian poet, prose and script writer. He was also active as a comic artist. From 1945 onwards he was the or of the first teenage magazine called "Pioner" (Pioneer). Janevski is the author of the first novel to be written in Macedonian, Seloto zad sedumte jaseni (A Village Behind the Seven Ash-trees). As a script writer, he adapted the historical drama Macedonian Blood Wedding in 1967. Janevski is considered as a founder of Macedonian poetry.

Janevski was born in Skopje on January 11, 1920. From an early age, he had been interested in literature and art. He completed technical school in Skopje. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, he was a member of the Macedonian Partisans. Janevski is the first known ethnic Macedonian author of a comic strip and he published the first comic strip in Macedonian in 1945. He began writing poetry during World War II and published his first poetry collection Krvava niza (A Bloody Garland) in 1945. Janevski also published other collections, such as Egejska barutna bajka (Aegean Gunpowder Fairy Tale) in 1950 and Evangelije po Itar Pejo (The gospel according to Itar Pejo) in 1966. He was a member of the orial board of the publishing house "Kultura" (Culture), which started operating by 1945. Since 1945 he had been the or of the first Macedonian children's newspaper "Pioner" (Pioneer), and then he was the or-in-chief of several literary magazines, such as: the children's magazine "Titovce", the magazines for literature and art "Nov den" (New day) and "Sovremenost" (Contemporaneity), the literary newspaper "Horizont" (Horizon) and the humorous-satirical newspaper "Osten". In the meantime he worked as an or in the publishing houses "Kočo Racin", "Naša kniga" (Our book) and "Makedonska kniga" (Macedonian book).