Tone Čufar was a Slovene

Slovenians

The Slovenes, Slovene people, Slovenians, or Slovenian people are a South Slavic people primarily associated with Slovenia and the Slovene language.-Population:Most Slovenes today live within the borders of the independent Slovenia...

 writer

Writer

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, a playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 and a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Biography

Tone Čufar was born in Jesenice as the third son of a factory carpenter

Carpenter

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. Because of his poor health his parents sent him to work as a shepherd

Shepherd

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 with his uncle in Bohinjska Bela

Bohinjska Bela

Bohinjska Bela is a village in the Municipality of Bled in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.Bohinjska Bela lies on the left bank of the Sava Bohinjka River, southwest of Bled. The oldest part of the settlement, locally known as Spodnja vas or Dolenja vas is believed to be over a thousand...

. This and the outbreak of the First World War meant that he did not attend school regularly and was deprived of any formal education. He eventually trained as a carpenter in Ljubljana and returned to Jesenice after his training. He joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia

Young Communist League of Yugoslavia

Young Communist League of Yugoslavia, commonly known by its abbreviation SKOJ was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1919 to 1948...

 in 1929. In 1932, he joined the Slovene Social Writers' Club and decided to make a living through writing. He also began working as a journalist and an editor. In 1936, he was arrested and imprisoned in Ljubljana for his activities in the worker's movement. He was sent to Belgrade

Belgrade

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 to serve out a one year prison sentence and lost his citizen's rights for a further five. He later moved to Maribor

Maribor

Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....

 and worked for a local newspaper.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, he fled to Ljubljana where he soon became active in the Slovene Liberation Front

Liberation Front of the Slovenian People

On 26 April 1941 in Ljubljana the Anti-Imperialist Front was established. It was to promote "an international massive movement" to "liberate the Slovenian nation" whose "hope and example was the Soviet Union"...

. He was arrested by the Italian

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 occupying authorities in Ljubljana and sent to Gonars concentration camp

Gonars

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. On August 10, 1942, the authorities moved Tone Čufar together with some other prisoners to Šentvid

Šentvid

The Šentvid District or simply Šentvid is a city district of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia....

 near Ljubljana in order to hand them over to the Germans

Germans

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. He tried to escape and was shot. Primary schools in Ljubljana, Maribor and Jesenice as well as the municipal theatre in Jesenice are named after him.

Poetry

• Tovarna (Factory)
• Iz jeseniške fabrike (From the Jesenice Factory)
• Mi, proletarska mladina  (We, the Proletarian Youth)
• Sončna molitev (Sun Prayer)
• Železobeton (Steel-Reinforced Concrete)
• Pionirji novega sveta (Pioneers of the New World)
• Mladi jetnici (To a Young [female] Detainee)

Prose

• Tragedija v kleti (Tragedy in the Cellar)
• Marija bi rada živela (Maria Would Like To Live)
• Nova gaz (New Track)
• Pod kladivom (Under the Hammer)
• Deklica iz revirja (The Girl)
• Tovarna (Factory)

Plays

• Rdeči svit (Red Dawn)
• Polom (Disaster)
• Ameriška tatvina (American Theft)
• Ljubezen v kleti (Love in the Cellar)
• Mali Babilon (Little Babylon)