Rudolf Jašík

Rudolf Jašík was born on 2 December 1919 in Turzovka, the eldest of the three sons of a butcher's labourer who went to work in Canada, and grew up at his grandmother's. After schools at Podvysoká and Kláštor pod Znievom and a spell at the Nitra seminary, he worked at the Baťa factories in Zlín until 1938. A communist, imprisoned in 1940 for leaflets and sent to the Eastern front, he fought as a partisan in 1944 and 1945. A journalist, editor, then cultural officer at Partizánske and Nitra, he lived by his pen from 1958 and died in Bratislava on 30 July 1960.

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• NovelNámestie svätej AlžbetyRudolf Jašík · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature