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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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