The page of Dušek, Dušan, English biography
Biography
writer, author of children's books, film and television scriptwriterBorn 4 January 1946 in Gbelce. He spent his youth in the Záhorie region (Western Slovakia) and in Piešťtany. Dušek studied geology and chemistry at Comenius University in Bratislava and graduated in 1970. Then he worked as an editor in the periodicals Smena, Tip, Kamarát and in the literary monthly Slovenské pohľady. From 1919 he has been a professional writer. At present Dušek teaches at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.