Ľudo Ondrejov (19 October 1901 in
Slanje
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, present day
Croatia
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– 18 March 1962 in
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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) was a
Slovak poet and
prose
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writer.
Biography
Ľudo Ondrejov was born in a Slovak family in Slanje,
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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(today part of
Donji Martijanec, Croatia) on 18 March 1901. He spent most of his childhood in the Kingdom of Hungary in a small village Kostiviarska (today part of
Banská Bystrica
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). He moved to
Bratislava
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in 1938 and became a professional writer. Ľudo Ondrejov was a member of a partisan group in 1944–45. During World War II he was given a bookstore as a part of the
Aryanization
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in Slovakia.
Works
Writing career
Ondrejov's first works were published in periodicals such as ''Slovenské pohľady'' (Slovak views). His first book was published in 1932. He wrote prose and poetry for adults and children. Ondrejov was a significant member of the Slovak school of naturalism. Ondrejov also wrote fictional
travelogues
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.
List of selected works
Poetry
* 1932 – ''Martin Nociar Jakubovie''
* 1932 – ''Bez návratu'' (No return)
* 1936 – ''Mámenie'' (Wheedling)
* 1956 – ''Básne'' (Poems)
Prose
* 1932 – ''Rozprávky z hôr'' (Fairy tales from the mountains)
* 1936 – ''Africký zápisnÃk'' (African itinerary)
* 1936 – ''Horami Sumatry''(Through the mountains of Sumatra)
* ''Slnko vychádza nad hory'' (The Sun is rising over the hills) trilogy
** 1937 – ''ZbojnÃcka mladosÅ¥'' (Outlaw's youth)
** 1939 – ''Jerguš Lapin'' (also the name of the main character in the first two volumes)
** 1950 – ''Na zemi sú tvoje hviezdy ''(Your stars are on the ground)
Criticism
During the
Second World War
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he Aryanized the second-hand bookshop of the
Jewish
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family of Steiners in Bratislava. Moreover, when the deportation of Jews started, he said that in his company no Jew was needed and he reported them to the authorities:
"I declare that in this bookstore I do not need these Jews: Max Steiner, Joseph Steiner, Sigismund Steiner and Viliam Steiner. By securing and deporting those Jews neither the trade nor the Slovak state will suffer any economic damage, because I have found compensation in the Aryan person Mr. Viliam Fabry from the St. Martin."
These people later died in concentration camps.
Slovenské dotyky, október 2005
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References
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Slovak writers
1901 births
1962 deaths