Martin Kukučín

Martin Kukučín (real name Matej Bencúr, 17 May 1860, Jasenová, – 21 May 1928, Pakrac) was a Slovak prose writer, dramatist and publicist. He was the most notable representative of Slovak literary realism, and is considered one of the founders of modern Slovak prose.
Biography
He was born into a family of freemen, or soltys, the son of Ján Bencúr Juriš and his wife Zuzana, née Pašková, and had two brothers and one sister. He was educated at the Slovak 'gymnasium' in Revúca, Martin, Banská Bystrica, Kežmarok, and finished his education in Sopron. Although he wished to study theology in Bratislava, due to the anti-Slovak atmosphere prevailing at that time, he chose to study medicine in Prague instead.
After graduating and completing his internship in Bratislava, Innsbruck and Vienna, he attempted without success to find employment in Slovakia. Instead in 1893 he began to work as a doctor in the village of Selca on the island of Brač in Croatia, where he was also an active member of the cultural society Hrvatski Sastanak. In 1904, he became one of its directors. In 1896–97, he tried unsuccessfully to return to Slovakia.
In 1904, he married Perica Didolić, with whom he left in 1908 for South America, where they settled in Punta Arenas, Chile, where there was a large community of Croatian émigrés. During 1922–24, he lived again in Slovakia (Czechoslovakia at that time), then moved to Croatia in 1924–25, briefly returning to Chile in 1925 to resolve property disputes. In 1926, he finally settled in Lipik, a spa town in Croatia, where he died in 1928. Temporarily buried in Zagreb, he was interred in the National Cemetery in Martin in October 1928.
On May 17, 2010, Google Doodle commemorated Martin Kukucin's 150th birthday.
Works
Prose
1883 - Na hradskej ceste
1885 - Rysavá jalovica
1886 - Neprebudený
1890 - Keď báčik z Chocholova umrie
1891 - Na podkonickom bále
1892 - Koniec a začiatok
1892 - Dve cesty
1893 - Dies Irae
1898 - V Dalmácii a Čiernej Hore, travelogue
1899 - Hody
1911 / 1912 - Dom v stráni, novel set in Brač
1922 - Črty z ciest. Prechádzky po Patagónii, travelogue
1922 - Mladé letá, memoirs about his student years
1926 - Mať volá, novel about Croatian emigrants in Chile
1929 - Bohumil Valizlosť Zábor, historical novel
1929 - Lukáš Blahosej Krasoň, historical novel
1930 - Košútky. Klbká. Rozmarínový mládnik.
Čas tratí - čas platí
Máje, poviedka
Pán majster Obšíval
Na jarmok
Na Ondreja,
Hajtman, poviedka
Obecné trampoty
Z teplého hniezda
Veľkou lyžicou
Panský hájnik
O Michale
Na svitaní
Ako sa kopú poklady
Pozor na čižmy
Sviatočné dumy
Tri roje cez deň
Svadba
Parník
Štedrý deň
Drama
1907 - Komasácia
1922 - Bacuchovie dvor
1924 - Obeta
See also
Martin Kukučín (sculpture)
References
External links
Kukučín, Martin: Keď báčik z Chocholova umrie on-line book in Slovak
Kukučín, Martin: Neprebudený on-line book in Slovak
Kukučín, Martin: Tichá voda on-line book in Slovak
Kukučín, Martin: Veľkou lyžicou on-line book in Slovak
Martin Kukučín on the Slovak Radio webpage
Martin Kukučín
Na podkonickom bále Slovak online PDF book
Keď báčik z Chochoľova umrie Slovak online PDF book
Regrúti Slovak online PDF book
Dies irae (Dni hnevu) Slovak online PDF book
1860 births
1928 deaths
People from Dolný Kubín District
Slovak writers
19th-century Slovak people
20th-century Slovak people
Writers from Austria-Hungary
Burials at National Cemetery in Martin