Dobroslav Chrobák

Dobroslav Chrobák (16 February 1907 – 16 May 1951) was a Slovak 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

External links

• Works by Dobroslav Chrobák on Open Library at the Internet Archive

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Name	Chrobak, Dobroslav
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Date of birth	16 February 1907
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Date of death	16 May 1951
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