White Dawns

"White Dawns" (Macedonian: "Бели мугри", "Beli mugri") is a collection of poems by the famous Macedonian writer Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), published in 1939 in Samobor, near Zagreb, Croatia. This is the third collection of poems published in Macedonian language, after Venko Markovski's "Folk Sorrows" ("Народни бигори") and "The Fire" ("Огинот"), published in 1938.

White Dawns was printed on 25 November at the printing house of Dragutin Schpuler in 4.000 copies. After the established communist practice, the title is printed in red. Since there lay a danger in discovering the author's identity, Kosta Solev published the work under the pseudonym "K. Racin" (К. Рацин). The collection quickly gained popularity all over the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and met its greatest success in Pirin Macedonia.

"White Dawns" comprises 12 poems in the following order:

*"Days" ("Денови")
*"Earning" ("Печал")
*"Rural Toil" ("Селска мака")
*"The Tobacco Harvesters" ("Тутуноберачите")
*"Lenka" ("Ленка")
*"Farewell" ("Проштавање")
*"A Ballad to the Unknown One" ("Балада за непознатиот")
*"Elegies for You" ("Елегии за тебе")
*"The Sun Above Us" ("Утрото над нас")
*"Tatunčo" ("Татунчо")
*"To Have a Shop in Struga" ("На Струга дуќан да имам")
*"The Diggers" ("Копачите")

ee also

*Kočo Racin
*Socialist realism
*Macedonian literature

External links

* [http://faq.macedonia.org/the.arts/racin.html Several songs from "White Dawns" in Macedonian and in English]
* [http://www.marxists.org/makedonski/tematska/poezija/lenka.mp3 „Lenka“ performed by Zafir Hadžimanov (mp3)]