Dobroslav Chrobák

Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907 – 16 May 1951) was a Slovak writer, essayist and critic.

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.

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