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, essayist, critic, journalist
Nationality	Slovak

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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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

References

1. "CHROBÁK, Dobroslav, Prof. Ing". Slovak Television and Radio (in Slovak). n.d. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
2. "Z listov rodičom - Bibliografia - Dobroslav Chrobák - Zlatý fond | Zlatý fond SME". zlatyfond.sme.sk. Retrieved 9 September 2025.

External links

• Works by Dobroslav Chrobák at Open Library