Dominik Tatarka

Dominik Tatarka was born on 14 March 1913 in Plevník-Drienové, the only boy among eight children. A pupil at the gymnasia of Nitra and Trenčín, he studied Slovak and French in Prague from 1934 to 1938, then at the Sorbonne, and taught French at the lycées of Žilina and Martin. A member of the underground Communist Party, he took part in the Slovak National Uprising, then in the early fifties edited newspapers such as Pravda. Opposed to the invasion of 1968, he left the Party; forbidden to write from 1971, he worked as a lumberjack, signed Charter 77 and died in Bratislava on 10 May 1989.

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• NovelDémon súhlasuDominik Tatarka · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature