SNP80: Young Authors Also Joined SNP, Some of Them Didn't Live to See End of War

Bratislava, August 11 (TASR) - The Slovak National Uprising (SNP) also involved many young poets, prose writers and translators. In a literary cycle called 'Young in Eternity', literary and cultural historian Peter Cabadaj drew attention to long-forgotten authors who fought bravely and lost their most precious thing at a very young age. The brave insurgent authors also included poet, prose writer, playwright and translator Boris Kocur (1924-1944). Immediately after the outbreak of SNP, the young author joined the partisans and took an active part in their actions. According to some sources, as a member of A.M. Sadilenko partisan group he was last seen in mid-December 1944 in the mountains in central Slovakia. "Two of his poems were published in 1941," notes Cabadaj about the young author, who gradually got his poetic texts, short prose pieces and translations into well-known magazines. Kocur also wrote a play from a student environment called 'Open Windows', which was broadcast on Bratislava radio in 1944. As a translator, he focused on the work of leading English and American authors. Kocur made his book debut shortly before the start of SNP with a collection of verses called 'Trembling over Hands' (Bratislava, 1944). "The stylistic refinement of the poems indicated that a talented author familiar with modern European poetry - especially of the Rimbaud type - was entering Slovak literature," added Cabadaj. am