Rudolf Dobiáš | trenČIN

Job: writer, pensioner

Place: Trenčianska Teplá - Dobrá

Date of Award: 2. 9. 2026

trenČIN:

For almost a century, you are part of the image of Trencin, even if you are a native of Dobrá. You graduated from the Trenčín high school where Dominik Tatarka and Vojtech Zamarsky studied before you. I wish you much health in your struggle with age. You handle him as always with a smile and humor.

Quote:

If I could just wash something out of myself... Something good. I'd like to do something else

We went to Dobrá to see a man with a Big W, who shouldn’t be introduced much. A street we’ve already valued. And actually to the family house we already appreciated. In June we presented the award to our son, now we carried it to my father. The wife and son invited us to come forward, and we entered a room full of family love and belonging. It just felt in the air.

Mr. Rudolf At the age of 92, you still feel that he could still pass on more good to himself. I guess he hasn’t missed it yet, even though I’ve been giving it away my whole life. Age naturally brought him health problems, but humor remained his own. We were amused by the mini story that happened to him recently and we laughed at him. We were surprised that the family still lived around where Mr. Rudolf was born. We wished him much health on our way out. When we got out of the room, peace, harmony, and family warmth, we left it inside, and we knew we would never forget this meeting again.

In 1953, the teacher discovered a cartoon depicting Stalin and Gottwald in the notebook of Rudolf Dobiah, who cooked in pots in hell. State security arrested him three months after he was admitted to the Philosophical Faculty. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in Jáchymov. He was released in 1960. Literary began to form in prison when he published the first poetic collection of the Aquarium. Ten years later, he had already published in children’s magazines and wrote radio games for children, which he created over thirty. After 1989 he literaryly processed the dark period of the 1950s in Czechoslovakia. He founded the magazine Testimony, where he also worked as editor editor. For his work, he won many awards, including the Prize of the Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic for Literature and Pribin Cross II. Class II, the Prize of the President of the Slovak Republic for Lifelong Efforts in Defending Democracy, Human Rights and Religious Freedoms, the Prize of Fra Angelic, the Prize of the Trinity, the Prize of the Constitution of National Memory, the Crystal Wing, the Knight of the Order of St. Gregor the Great, the Prize of Miroslav Ivanov, the International Prize of Egon Erwin Kisch, the National Vojtech Zamarovsky Prize and others. And these significant awards were added on one ordinary September day from the Trenčín project.