Peter Karvaš

Peter Karvaš was born on 25 April 1920 in Banská Bystrica, into a family of intellectuals and artists; his grandfather was the painter Dominik Skutecký. He began studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague, completed them at the faculty of arts in Bratislava, where he took his doctorate in 1947, and worked during the uprising at the free Slovak radio. After the war, he worked at the Nová scéna theatre, was cultural attaché in Bucharest from 1949 to 1951 and taught the theory of drama at the academy of arts. Pushed out of literary life after 1968, he died in Bratislava on 28 November 1999.

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• TheatrePolnočná omšaPeter Karvaš · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature