This project is co-financed by the European Union through Iliya Karayanov was born in Gevgelija on July 8, 1943. Graduate of Philology Faculty in Skopje. Works as a professor at Yosif Iosifovski High School in Gevgelija. Member of Macedonian Writers' Association (1987). He is an author of poetry collections: Soncholedovo Oko (1978), Tsvetovi na svobodata (1979), Polnoken Sonopis (1987), Sonomorie (1991), Sliki Od Yugot (1995), Zornitsi vo sonot (1997) , Soneti vo pochetok i kraj Sounds (1999), Svileni zvutsi (Haiku Poetry, 2000).