page_title: Kočo Racin
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Kočo Racin / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Kocho Ratsin's Birth Certificat
context_page_description: Kosta Apostolov Solev was a Macedonian author and socialist activist who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature. His poem collection White Dawns is one of the most important masterpieces in Macedonian modern literature. Racin wrote in prose too and created some significant works with themes from history, philosophy, and literary critique.
context_section_description: Kočo (Kosta Solev) Racin was born in 1908 in Veles, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). He was raised in a very poor family. His father, Apostol was a potter who earned just enough to feed his family, and he could not support Racin financially in his education. Racin finished just one year in the local high school at the age of thirteen, and then worked in his father's pottery workshop.
caption: Bulgarian birth certificate of Racin.
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