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Jozef Kollár
Jozef Kollár was born in 1960 in Trnava, Slovakia. He studied journalism at the Faculty of Arts of the Komensky University in Bratislava.
He has a long-term successful career as a reporter in the daily newspaper Nový čas during which he has got rich experience with the Slovak reality of life. In 1994, he published a book of short stories, Misunderstanding. In his stories, he fantasized about real-life situations. and played with reality, often harsh images of life situations he alternated with surreal images.
In another collection of short stories, The Woman in the Carpet, interpreted the averted, conflicted face of the family: various misunderstandings that can take on tragic proportions.
His profile is interestingly complemented by his work for children – comics, series for magazines, first reading books, in which he presented himself as a playful author, sensitive to the world of today's children, imbued with fantasy. The focus of his work in the last two decades was on telling the stories that both come from everyday reality and at the same time are extraordinary. Although they have a real basis from his journalistic practice, in the literary processing they took on a timeless dimension. These are mainly two novels I was a child spy and 55 minutes between life and death.
Jozef Kollár lives in Bratislava and is still active as a columnist and writer.
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