[5][6][7][8][9] Koneski was born in Nebregovo in the province of South Serbia, part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (current-day North Macedonia).

After the Bulgarian coup d'état in September 1944, he returned to his native land, before completing his higher education.

Here Koneski began working in the department for communist agitprop at the Main Headquarters of the Macedonian Partisans.

He worked as a lector in the Macedonian National Theater, but in 1946, he joined the faculty at the Philosophy Department of the Ss.

He received a state funeral for his distinguished literary career and his contributions to the codification of standard Macedonian.

[27] According to Christian Voss the turning point in the Serbianization of Macedonian took place in the late 1950s, coinciding with the preparation period for the dictionary of Koneski published between 1961 and 1966.

[29] When he visited Chicago in 1969 and received the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa" from a local university, letters of protest were sent to the rector by two Albanian intellectuals from Bitola living in Istanbul, claiming the Macedonian language was invented by the Yugoslav Communists to de-Bulgarianize the local Slavs.

[30] Today historical revisionists in the Republic of North Macedonia, who questioned the narrative established in Communist Yugoslavia,[31] have described the process of codifying Macedonian, to which Koneski was an important contributor, as 'Serbianization'.

[34] In his participation in the Linguistic Commissions of ASNOM, Koneski advocated for the full adoption of the Serbian alphabet.