Milo Urban (24 August 1904 in Rabčice

Rabcice

Rabčice is a village and municipality in Námestovo District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.-Geography:The municipality lies at an altitude of 756 metres and covers an area of 22.183km². It has a population of about 1885 people.-External links:...

, Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

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 – 10 March 1982 in Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

) was Slovak

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 writer, translator, journalist and important representatives of modern Slovak literature

Slovak literature

-Middle Ages:The first monuments of literature in present-day Slovakia are from the time of Great Moravia . Authors from this period are Saint Cyril, Saint Methodius and Clement of Ohrid...

. Urban is controversial figure because he served as an editor-in-chief of an official propagandist magazine of the Hlinka Guard

Hlinka Guard

Hlinka Guard was the militia maintained by the Slovak People's Party in the period from 1938 to 1945; it was named after Andrej Hlinka.The Hlinka Guard was preceded by the Rodobrana organization, which existed from 1923 to 1927, when the Czechoslovak authorities ordered its dissolution...

 Gardista in the era of the clerofascist Slovak State and was found guilty for collaboration by the court in 1948.

Stories, novellas, novels

• 1920 - Ej, ten tanec, story (published in magazine Vatra)
• Nešťastník
• Už je pozde
• V zhone žitia
• Vanitas vanitatum
• Typograf
• 1922 - Jašek Kutliak spod Bačinky (Jašek Kutliak from Under Bučinka), novella
• 1926 - Za vyšným mlynom (Beyond the Upper Mill), this work was used as a model to Eugen Suchoň
  Eugen Suchon
  Eugen Suchoň was one of the greatest Slovak composers of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  's opera Krútňava
  Krútnava
  Krútňava is an opera in six scenes by Eugen Suchoň written in the 1940s to a libretto by the composer and Štefan Hoza, based on a novella, Za vyšným mlynom by Milo Urban...
  
  
• 1928 - Výkriky bez ozveny (Calls Without Echo), collection of novellas
  • V súmraku
  • Štefan Koňarčík-Chrapek a Pán Boh
  • Rozprávka o Labudovi
  • Mičinova kobyla
  • Tajomstvo Pavla Hrona
  • Svedomie a Staroba
• 1932 - Z tichého frontu (From the Silent Front), collection of novellas
  • Skok do priepasti
  • Nie!
  • Roztopené srdce
  • Pred dražbou
  • Drevený chlieb
  • Človek, ktorý hľadá šťastie
• 1927 - Živý bič (The Living Whip), novel (1st part of the trilogy)
• 1930 - Hmly na úsvite (Fog at Dawn), free continuation of Živý bič (2nd part of the pentalogy)
• 1940 - V osídlach (In the Snares), free continuation of Živý bič (3rd part of the pentalogy)
• 1943 - Novely (Novellas)
• 1957 - Zhasnuté svetlá (Lights Doused), free continuation of Živý bič (4th part of the pentalogy)
• 1964 - Kto seje vietor (Who Sows the Wind), free continuation of Živý bič (5th part of the pentalogy)
• 1996 - Železom po železe

Essays

• 1970 - Zelená krv: Spomienky hájnikovho syna (Green Blood: Memories of the gamekeeper's son)
• 1992 - Kade-tade po Halinde
• 1994 - Na brehu krvavej rieky
• 1995 - Sloboda nie je špás

Other works

• 1920 / 1921 - Zavrhnutý, poem (published in magazine Vatra)
• 1925 - Otroci predsudkov, play (only preview, which was published in magazine Slovenský národ)
• 1934 - Česká literatúra a Slováci, lecture
• 1991 - Beta, kde si? , play (only year of inscenation, not published)

Translations

• 1951 - selection from Russian tales
• 1954 - Igor Newerly
  Igor Newerly
  Igor Newerly or Igor Abramow-Newerly was a Polish novelist and educator. He was born into a Russian-Polish family. His son is Polish novelist Jarosław Abramow-Newerly...
  
  : Pamiątka z Celulozy
• 1959 - Aleksander Fredro
  Aleksander Fredro
  Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author.-Life:Count Aleksander Fredro, of the Bończa coat of arms, was born in the village of Surochów near Jarosław, then a crown territory of Austria. A landowner's son, he was educated at home. He entered the Polish army at age 16 and saw...
  
  : Pan Geldhab (Mr. Geldhab)
• 1960 - Karel Čapek
  Karel Capek
  Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...
  
   and Josef Čapek
  Josef Capek
  Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.- Biography :...
  
  : Zo života hmyzu (Pictures from the Insects' Life
  Pictures from the Insects' Life
  Pictures from the Insects' Life , also known as Insect Play or The Life of the Insects, is a satirical play in the Czech language written by the brothers Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek. It was published in 1921 and premiered in 1922...
  
  )
• 1961 - Karel Čapek
  Karel Capek
  Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...
  
  : Matka (The Mother)

External links

• Biography