Dobroslav Chrobák

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Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907 – 16 May 1951) was a Czechoslovak writer.

He was born in Hybe as the second from four kids in 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 – "Forest", story
  • 1925 – "Centric crash", story
  • 1931 – Two Stone Days, novel
  • 1937 – Friend Jašek, collection of novels and stories
  • 1943 – Dragon is returned, fiction

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