Tone Čufar

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Tone Čufar
Šentvid, Nazi Germany
(now Slovenia)
OccupationWriter, Playwright
NationalitySlovene

Tone Čufar (14 November 1905 – 11 August 1942) was a Slovene writer, a playwright and a poet.

Biography

Tone Čufar was born in

Young Communist League of Yugoslavia 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 workers' movement. He was sent to Belgrade to serve a one-year prison sentence and lost his citizen's rights for a further five years. He later moved to Maribor
and worked for a local newspaper.

After the outbreak of

Šentvid near Ljubljana in order to hand them over to the Germans
. He tried to escape and was shot.

Work

Most of Čufar's works have a working-class theme.

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 ('Girl from the District')
  • Tovarna ('Factory')

Plays

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

Commemoration

Three elementary schools, in Jesenice, in Ljubljana, and in Maribor, are named after Čufar.[1] In addition, the theatre in Jesenice is named Tone Čufar Theatre.

In the second half of the 20th century, three bronze busts of Tone Čufar were erected in Jesenice.[1] The first, in the hall of the Tone Čufar Theatre, was made by Anton Sigulin in 1958.[2] The second, in front of Tone Čufar Primary School, was made by Nika Hafner in 1962–63.[3] The third, standing in the Plavž Memorial Park, was made by Jaka Torkar in 1988.[4] It was stolen in January 2008 and replaced in April 2008 with a replica of the bust in front of the school.[5] Nika Hafner also created the statue of Čufar that is on display in Tone Čufar Primary School in Ljubljana.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Hladnik, Miran (28 December 2011). "Gorenjski kraji na slovenski pisateljski poti (II)" [The Upper Carniolan Places on the Slovenian Writers' Path]. Gorenjski glas (in Slovenian). GG Plus. Archived from the original on 25 December 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-961-268-001-5
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  4. ^ Šubic, Simon (28 January 2008). "Ukradeni kipi so za odpad" [The Stolen Sculptures Are for a Dump]. Gorenjski glas (in Slovenian). GG Plus. Archived from the original on 11 February 2008.
  5. ^ Knez, Primož (29 April 2008). "Jeseniški kipi postavljeni na novi" [The Jesenice Sculptures Re-erected]. Dnevnik.si.
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