The page of Urban, Milo, English biography
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Biography
Amongst writers for whom domestic social themes are central, Milo Urban (1904-1982), is especially revered for his novel Živý bič (The Living Whip, 1927), a panoramic chronicle, full of visionary pathos, of the wartime agonies of a fictional village, transformed from passivity into revolutionary violence. Between 1940-45 he edited the main Slovak Fascist daily Gardista. His other novels from the thirties to the sixties, chronicling Slovakia in the years up to 1945 are less generally well-regarded.
