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Valentín Beniak

Died in 1973

Valentín Beniak was born on 19 February 1894 in Chynorany. After taking his school-leaving exam in Nitra in 1916, he enrolled the same year in law in Budapest, then returned home after a year. A trainee notary, then a notary in several villages of central Slovakia, he joined the Ministry of the Interior in Bratislava in March 1939 and presided over the Union of Slovak Writers from 1940 to 1945. Detained for a few months after the war and retired in 1947, he then lived in seclusion for some twenty years, barred from publishing, and translated Hungarian poetry. He died in Bratislava on 6 November 1973.

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