Abstract
Today's Bulgarian literary academia draws mainly on its authors from Macedonia who were active in the pre liberation period (until 1878). At the same time, however we cannot ignore the perspective of contemporary Macedonian academics that lay their claim to (shared, "dioecious") Bulgarian-Macedonian authors.
Y. K(ă)rchovski and K.
Pejchinovich as writers, activists and enlightened men were the first representatives of literary life in Macedonia. A typical example of the so called "teacher's literature" of the mid-19th century is a collection of Macedonian and Bulgarian oral folklore (Bălgarski narodni pesni, 1861) by R.
Zhinzifov and the Miladinovi brothers who were patriots and poets. The poet G.
P(ă)rlichev was a Bulgarian-Macedonian-Greek author.