He was born on 18 October 1874 in Tajov, after which he chose his pseudonym. He graduated from the teachers' institute in Kl\u00e1\u0161tor pod Znievom (1889 - 1893) and worked as a teacher in Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica and in villages in the Horehronie and Pova\u017eie regions. Later he graduated from the Commercial Academy in Prague (1898 - 1900) and worked as a bank clerk in Trnava, Martin, Nadlak. From 1910 to 1912 he was the head of the Tatra Bank branch in Pre\u0161ov. From 1912 he was the secretary of the Slovak National Party in Martin, where he became the editor of the National Herald after its activities were discontinued. In 1915 he enlisted on the Eastern Front, joined the foreign resistance and joined the Czechoslovak legions. After the war he settled in Martin, but from 1920 he was the head of the legionary office in Bratislava. In 1925 he retired and devoted himself only to literary activities. He died on 20 May 1940 in Bratislava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tajovsk\u00fd is one of the top representatives of Slovak literary realism and the founder of realistic drama. His works are connected with current political and social issues, and in addition to criticism, he often used humorous tuning of stories set in a village or small-town environment. He published prose collections Besednice, Smutn\u00e9 n\u00f4ty, Rozpr\u00e1vky pro folk, Volebn\u00e9 rozpr\u00e1vky, Spod kosy, T\u0155pky, Slovensk\u00e9 obr\u00e1zky, Na fronty a in\u00e9 rozpr\u00e1vky, Rozpr\u00e1vky o \u010deskoslovensk\u00e9 leggi\u00e1ch v Rusku, but his best known stories are Maco Mlie\u010d, Mamka P\u00f4stkov\u00e1, Na chlieb, Hork\u00fd chlieb and Mi\u0161o. During his stay in Pre\u0161ov, he wrote the one-act play Sin, the prose poems Gypsies, Twelve Souls and Heavy Struggle, as well as the autobiographical features When I Was in Pre\u0161ov, From Pre\u0161ov to Ujhe\u013e and Behind Z\u00e1borsk\u00fd's Manuscripts. Tajovsk\u00fd's plays Promises, The Women's Law, Mother, New Life, Sin, In the Service, The Confused Farm, The Death of \u010eurka Langsfeld, The Bl\u00faznivci and The Hero are still part of the repertoire of Slovak theatres today. In Pre\u0161ov, a street is named after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: <\/strong>Regional Library P. O. Hviezdoslav in Pre\u0161ov; Micro-project. <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4270,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"kategoria-vyznamnych-tvari":[230],"oblast-posobenia":[233,232],"class_list":["post-4109","vyznamna-tvar","type-vyznamna-tvar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria-vyznamnych-tvari-historicka-osobnost","oblast-posobenia-literatura","oblast-posobenia-pedagogika"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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