Jan Smrek (real name is Chietek ) ( Slovak. Ján Smrek ; December 16, 1898 , Zemyansk-Lieskov, Austria-Hungary - December 8, 1982 , Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) - Slovak poet , prose writer , publicist , translator , editor , publisher . People's Artist of Czechoslovakia (1966). Laureate of the State Prize of Czechoslovakia (1929) and Czechoslovakia (1954).
| Jan Smrek | |
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| Slovak Ján smrek | |
 Ian Smrek. 1937 | |
| Birth name | Jan Chietek |
| Aliases | Ilya Volzhanin, Janko Smrek, Larix |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Zemyansk-Lieskow, Austria-Hungary (now Trenčín Region , Slovakia ) |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Bratislava |
| Citizenship |  →  |
| Occupation | prose writer , poet , translator |
| Language of Works | Slovak |
| Awards | Czechoslovak State Prize Czechoslovak State Prize |
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| Autograph | |
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Biography
From the peasants. After the death of his father in 1907 he was brought up in an orphanage. Member of the First World War. In 1917-1918 He served on the Palestinian front, where he became seriously ill with malaria .
In 1921 he graduated from the teacher’s seminary in Modra . In 1921-1924 he studied at the Higher Evangelical Theological School in Bratislava. He did not graduate. I became interested in journalism. From 1924 he worked as a journalist in the editorial office of the magazine Slovenského denníku , in 1925-1929 he edited the newspaper Národný novíný in Martin . In 1925-1938 he was editor of the Prague publishing house of young Slovak authors "Mazáčová" ( Edíciu mladých slovenských autorov ).
Since 1930 he settled in Prague , where he edited the publication of Slovak books and published the Slovak literary magazine "Elan" ("Elan").
During the Second World War he returned to Slovakia and settled in Bratislava. There in 1946-1947 he continued the publication of the Slovak magazine "Elan".
After 1948, the poet fell out of favor with the communist authorities, he was forbidden to write, his works were censored, and Smrtek began to engage in literary translations.
He died in Bratislava in 1982. Buried at the People’s Cemetery in Martin .
Creativity
At the beginning of his career, he was influenced by symbolism (the collection “Condemned to Eternal Thirst”, 1922). The most important works of J. Smrtek are the collections of the 1920-1930s: “Galloping Jumping Days” (1925), “Divine Knots” (1929), “Only Eyes” (1933), etc.
The anti-fascist position is reflected in his collections The Feast (1944) and The Treasure (1945).
J. Smrtek is the author of philosophical poetry and thoughts (the collection “The Image of the World”, 1958; “Strings”, 1962). In 1968 he published his memoirs entitled “ Poézia, Moja láska ” (“Poetry, My Love”). He wrote several books for children ("Maľovaná abeceda", "Machule") and the libretto for the operas of J. Zicker .
He translated from Hungarian ( E. Adi , A. Jozsef , S. Petofi ), French ( F. Villon , P. Cornell ), Russian (A. Pushkin ), Polish ( J. Tuwim ) and other languages.
Selected Works
- Odsúdený k vecitej žízni , 1922
- Cválajúce dni , 1925
- Božské uzly , 1929
- Iba oci , 1933
- Básnik a žena , 1934
- Zrno , 1935
- Hostina , 1944
- Studna , 1945
- Beg Bajazid , Libretto , 1957
- Obraz sveta , 1958
- Struny , 1962
- Mr. Scrooge , libretto , 1963
- Písané na sude , 1964
- Nerušte moje kruhy , 1965
- Poézia, moja láska 1968
Rewards
- Czechoslovak State Prize (1929)
- Slovakia Prize (1933)
- Czechoslovak State Prize (1954)
- People's Artist of Czechoslovakia (1966)
- Order of Labor (Czechoslovakia) (1978)
- Gold medal of the Hungarian PEN Club (Munkarend arany fokozata, 1978)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Find a Grave - 1995. - ed. size: 165000000
Literature
- Sherlaimova S.A. Jan Smrek // History of Slovak literature. M., 1970.
- Kovac B. Poezia Jana Smreka. Bratislava, 1962.
Links
- Ján Smrek (words.)