Tone Čufar

Tone Čufar

Infobox Writer
name = Tone Čufar



caption = Tone Čufar's bust in the Memorial Park in Jesenice
birthdate = birth date|1905|11|14
birthplace = Jesenice, Slovenia
deathdate = death date and age|1942|08|11|1905|11|14
deathplace = Ljubljana, Slovenia
occupation = Writer, Playwright
nationality = Slovene
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Tone Čufar (14 November 1905 - 11 August 1942) was a Slovene writer, a playwright and a poet.

Biography

Tone Čufar was born in Jesenice as the third son of a factory carpenter. Because of his poor health his parents sent him to work as a shepherd with his uncle in Bohinjska Bela. This and the outbreak of the First World War meant that he did not attend school regularly and was deprived of any formal education. He eventually trained as a carpenter in Ljubljana and returned to Jesenice after his training. He joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia in 1929. In 1932, he joined the Slovene Social Writers' Club and decided to make a living through writing. He also began working as a journalist and an editor. In 1936, he was arrested and imprisoned in Ljubljana for his activities in the worker's movement. He was sent to Belgrade to serve out a one year prison sentence and lost his citizen's rights for a further five. He later moved to Maribor and worked for a local newspaper. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he fled to Ljubljana where he soon became active in the Slovene Liberation Front. He was arrested by the Italian occupying authorities in Ljubljana and sent to Gonars concentration camp. On August 10 1942, the authorities moved Tone Čufar together with some other prisoners to Šentvid near Ljubljana in order to hand them over to the Germans. He tried to escape and was shot. Primary schools in Ljubljana, Maribor and Jesenice as well as the the municipal theatre in Jesenice are named after him.

Work

Most of Čufar's works have a working-class theme.

Poetry

*Tovarna (Factory)
*Iz jeseniške fabrike (From the Jesenice Factory)
*Mi, proletarska mladina (We, the Proletarian Youth)
*Sončna molitev (Sun Prayer)
*Železobeton (Steel-Reinforced Concrete)
*Pionirji novega sveta (Pioneers of the New World)
*Mladi jetnici (To a Young [female] Detainee)

Prose

*Tragedija v kleti (Tragedy in the Cellar)
*Marija bi rada živela (Maria Would Like To Live)
*Nova gaz (New Track)
*Pod kladivom (Under the Hammer)
*Deklica iz revirja (The Girl)
*Tovarna (Factory)

Plays

*Rdeči svit (Red Dawn)
*Polom (Disaster)
*Ameriška tatvina (American Theft)
*Ljubezen v kleti (Love in the Cellar)
*Mali Babilon (Little Babylon)


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