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RISTO KRLE was born in the year of 1900 in Struga, as
a son of a shoe maker. Risto's schooling occurred with some interruption.
Till the First Balkan War, he finished school and one year of secondary
school. After that, till the year of 1916 he had a break. Under the Bulgarian
occupation he managed to successfully finished another year school. Risto's
education was once again interrupted by the death of his father without
any possibility to continue with his education. As a teenager he got a
job in the state service, and after the war finished he inherited his fathers
profession, he became a shoe maker.
With the Cultural Artistic Group "Crni Drim" in Struga
he began his activity, Krle was one of the first participants in the dilettante
group. Four years Risto Krle attended an amateur acting group and his desire
was to write a drama text. But his desire did not come true for a while.
In 1925 he went to Podgradec in Albanian territory, where a large
number of Macedonian lived. There he accepted to work as a shoe maker,
staying there for one year. While working in Albania, Risto Krle had an
idea for his first drama called: "Parite Se Otepuvacka" (Money is death)
. When he returned in Struga he became an employee and after two years
he was dismissed as being unreliable. From then on, the shoe making occupation
would feed his family for a long time. He opened his own business but with
competition from foreign companies, he had to close it down. Risto changed
many other jobs and after the Second World War he worked in Skopje as a
clerk in the Ministry for education. Years after that until his retirement,
he was an employee and a member of the group of writers in Macedonia.
Risto Krle died at the age of 75 in Skopje.
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