Dobroslav Chrobák
Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907 – 16 May 1951) was a Slovak writer, essayist and critic.
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Dobroslav Chrobák
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- Name
- Dobroslav Chrobák
- Born
- 16 February 1907
- Birthplace
- Hybe, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)
- Died
- 16 May 1951
- Place of death
- Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
- Occupation
- Writer, essayist, critic, journalist
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia
- Education
- Czech Technical University in Prague
- Known for
- Drak sa vracia
- Languages
- Slovak
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Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907 – 16 May 1951) was a Slovak writer, essayist and critic.
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Dobroslav Chrobák (1907–1951) was a Czechoslovak translator and writer. Born in Hybe, the translator died in Bratislava. Dobroslav Chrobák studied at Czech Technical University in Prague.
Works include Drak sa vracia. Languages used include Slovak.
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• Name — Dobroslav Chrobák • Born — 16 February 1907 • Birthplace — Hybe, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) • Died — 16 May 1951 • Place of death — Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) • Occupation — Writer, essayist, critic, journalist
Life
Life
He was born in Hybe as the second of four kids to a family of dressmakers. He studied at school in Rožňava and Liptovský Mikuláš, and later at a technical high school in Bratislava. He completed his studies in 1934 at Czech Technical University in Prague. After that, he returned to Bratislava to work as a lecturer. Later, he worked as an editor of radio journalism at Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava, and the last five years as the regional managing director for Slovakia. From 1946 he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Chrobák died of a cancerous tumour after a failed surgery in Bratislava and is buried in Hybe.
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Selected works
• 1924 – Les, story • 1925 – Náraz priam centrický, story • 1931 – Dva kamenné dni, novel • 1937 – Kamarát Jašek, collection of novels and stories • 1943 – Drak sa vracia (Dragon's Return), fiction
Hybe, district of Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia - Grave of Dobroslav Chrobák (1907 - 1951), writer
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