modern Macedonian literature.

Known as the father of Macedonian poetry written in the vernacular.

His works symbolize struggle, suffering, and the ideals of justice and

equality.

He was raised in a very poor family. His father, Apostol was a potter who

earned just enough to feed his family, and he could not support Racin

financially in his education. Racin finished just one year in the local high

school at the age of thirteen and then worked in his father's pottery

workshop.

One of the most important poem of Nazım:

"To live! Like a tree alone and free,
Like a forest in brotherhood,
This yearning is ours."

I am neither inside time,
Nor wholly outside it;
In the unbroken flow of
A wide moment in a single piece.

With a strange color of dreams
As if every form is numbed,
Even a feather flying in the wind
Is not lighter than I am.