Larry Koroloff () is a Bulgarian-Canadian linguist, and educator, activist of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization, editor-in-chief of the âÂÂMacedonian Tribuneâ newspaper, and head of the patriotic organization âÂÂMacedonia: Switzerland on the BalkansâÂÂ, situated in Toronto.
Larry Koroloff was born in 1951 in Toronto, Canada, in the family of the Bulgarian émigré Lazar Koroloff. Through his mother's family he is a relative of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionaries Nikola Kuzinchev and Lazar Poptraykov. Koroloff has graduated from the University of Toronto, where he studied French and Russian philology and pedagogy. He has taught history, French, Russian, and English, as well as English literature, in various high schools in his home city.
Koroloff has authored scientific publications on the Kostur dialect. His book about the village of Drenoveni in the Kastoria region, where both his paternal and maternal ancestors lived, has received praise from the scientific community as a source of âÂÂunique ethnographic, linguistic, and historical informationâÂÂ, which âÂÂgreatly enhances our understanding of the history, ethnology, and the language of the southwesternmost parts of Macedoniaâ and âÂÂwill be the basis for any further research in that fieldâÂÂ. The book presents the history, language, traditions, and folklore of the village and the surrounding region in the Aegean Macedonia. It also covers the activity of the Bulgarian Exarchate ø IMARO, historic events like the IlindenâÂÂPreobrazhenie Uprising, as well as the Greek administration in the 1912âÂÂ1950 years. The research is based on interviews with numerous people from the village, who had emigrated to North America, and on voluminous historiographical and dialectological literature. Larry Koroloff also financed the printing of the book âÂÂBulgarian Dialect Texts from Aegean Macedoniaâ of the notable Bulgarian dialectologist and phonologist Blagoy Shklifov, and sponsored its publication by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Larry Koroloff was a member of the Central Committee of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in 2010âÂÂ2014. He was the editor-in-chief from September 2011 to June, 2023, of the âÂÂMacedonian Tribuneâ newspaper, âÂÂthe oldest Macedonian newspaper in the world published continuously since February 10, 1927âÂÂ.
Koroloff has been awarded with the highest award of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the âÂÂGolden Laurel BranchâÂÂ, for his âÂÂmany-year activity and contribution to the preservation of the Bulgarian nature of the [Macedonian Patriotic Organization], for strengthening of the national and cultural identity of the Bulgarian emigrants in CanadaâÂÂ.