Ján Smrek

Ján Čietek, who signs himself Ján Smrek, was born on 16 December 1898 in Zemianske Lieskové. After his father's death, he was a pupil at the Evangelical orphanage in Modra, then trained as a commercial clerk. A soldier on the Palestine front in 1917 and 1918, he then attended the teacher training college in Modra and six semesters of Evangelical theology. An editor at the Národnie noviny in Martin, he founded in Prague the Edition of Young Slovak Authors, then in 1930 the review Elán. A translator of Ady, Villon and Pushkin, he died in Bratislava on 8 December 1982 and is buried in the national cemetery in Martin.

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• PoetryBásnik a ženaJán Smrek · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature