Dobroslav Chrobák

Dobroslav Chrobák
Portrait of Dobroslav Chrobák
Born	(1907-02-16)February 16, 1907 Hybe, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)
Died	May 16, 1951(1951-05-16) (aged 44) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Slovak

Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907, Hybe – 16 May 1951, Bratislava) was a Slovak writer.

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. He died of a cancerous tumour in Bratislava and is buried in Hybe.

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

References

External links

• Works by Dobroslav Chrobák at Open Library