Tone Čufar
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| Born |
November 14, 1905 Jesenice, Austria–Hungary (now Slovenia) |
| Died | August 11, 1942 (aged 36) Šentvid, Nazi Germany (now Slovenia) |
| Occupation | Writer, Playwright |
| Nationality | Slovene |
Tone Čufar (14 November 1905 – 11 August 1942) was a Slovene writer, a playwright and a poet.
Tone Čufar was born in Jesenice as the third son of a factory carpenter. Because of his poor health his parents sent him to work as a shepherd with his uncle in Bohinjska Bela. This and the outbreak of the World War I (1914–1918) meant that he did not attend school regularly and ha no 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 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 out a one-year prison sentence and lost his citizen's rights for a further five. He later moved to Maribor and worked for a local newspaper.
After the outbreak of World War II, he fled to Ljubljana, where he soon became active in the Slovene Liberation Front. He was arrested by Italian authorities in Ljubljana and sent to the Gonars concentration camp. On 10 August 1942, the authorities moved him and some other prisoners to Šentvid near Ljubljana in order to hand them over to the Germans. He tried to escape and was shot.
Most of Čufar's works have a working-class theme.
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