[3] His childhood was haunted by the specter of incurable disease, death, sadness, and loneliness - themes that would later permeate his poetry.

He proved to be a highly personal poet even when chronicling events of a social or patriotic nature, as when describing the death of a much-loved woman and fellow partisan, Vera Jocić.

With his poetry book Stihovi na makata i radosta (Verses of Suffering and Joy), Šopov moved away from socialist realism.

Šopov's time in Senegal inspired the book Poem for the black women, which won the Miladinov Brothers Prize[7] at the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1976.

This international festival, held each year in the South of Macedonia, was founded in 1961 by Šopov himself with a group of Macedonian poets.

In 1975, back from Senegal, Aco Šopov was appointed as President of the Commission for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the Republic of Macedonia.