Milo Urban

Milo Urban was Slovak writer, translator, journalist and an important representative of modern Slovak literature.

Biography

Urban finished elementary school in Zázrivá and Podhorany, and then attended the gymnasia in Trstená and Ružomberok. From 1921, he worked as a journalist and editor for various newspapers and magazines. Between 1940 and 1945, Urban was editor-in-chief of Gardista, a propagandist magazine published by the Hlinka Guard, the paramilitary wing of the ruling Slovak People's Party in the clerico-fascist Slovak State.
Towards the end of World War II he fled the advancing Red Army to Austria, but was deported back to Czechoslovakia in 1947. The following year, Urban was put on trial for his role as editor of Gardista during the war, found guilty of collaboration and deprived of his publishing rights. From the 1950s he made a living as a translator. Urban died in Bratislava in 1982.

1920 - Ej, ten tanec, story NešťastníkUž je pozdeV zhone žitiaVanitas vanitatumTypograf
1922 - Jašek Kutliak spod Bačinky, novella
1926 - Za vyšným mlynom, this work was used as a model to Eugen Suchoň's opera Krútňava
1928 - Výkriky bez ozveny, 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, collection of novellas
* Skok do priepasti
* Nie!
* Roztopené srdce
* Pred dražbou
* Drevený chlieb
* Človek, ktorý hľadá šťastie
1927 - Živý bič, novel
1930 - Hmly na úsvite, free continuation of Živý bič
1940 - V osídlach, free continuation of Živý bič
1943 - Novely
1957 - Zhasnuté svetlá, free continuation of Živý bič
1964 - Kto seje vietor, free continuation of Živý bič
1996 - ''Železom po železe''