Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski

Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski (Bulgarian: Войдан Попгеоргиев - Чернодрински, romanized: Voydan Popgeorgiev - Chernodrinski; Macedonian: Војдан Поп Георгиев - Чернодрински, romanized: Vojdan Pop Georgiev - Černodrinski; January 15, 1875 – January 8, 1951) was a Bulgarian[2][3][4][5] playwright from the region of Macedonia.

Later Chernodrinski studied law in Austro-Hungary and Switzerland, but failed to graduate and moved back to Ottoman Macedonia, where he worked as a Bulgarian teacher.

In the mid-1930s, Aleksandar Shoumenoff, the owner of the First Bulgarian Book Store in Granite City, published part of the Chernodrinski's works.

[10] During World War II and the subsequent Bulgarian occupation of Vardar Macedonia, Chernodrinski and his troupe organized performances there.

[14] Besides the Macedonian Bloody Wedding written primarily in the Debar dialect, Chernodrinski published several other literary works, all in standard Bulgarian, including:[15]

Memorial plaque of Voydan Chernodrinski at his home in Sofia.
The front page of Macedonian Bloody Wedding (Sofia, 1900)