He was born 10 August 1925 in Veľké Rovné. After finishing the town school he held a variety of manual jobs. In 1949 he became a journalist on the daily Smena and at the same time started his external studies. In 1954 he completed secondary school and in 1958 he graduated in Journalism at the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. From 1965 to 1969 he worked on the staff of the cultural and political weekly Predvoj (Vanguard, later renamed Nové slovo - New Word). For his journalism in 1968 he was banned from publication in the years following the occupation by the armies of the Warsaw Pact. He used a variety of pseudonyms, the most frequent being Andrej Kadák. He returned to work at the daily Smena, where he edited the week-end supplement Smena na nedeľu. He retired in 1985. He died in Bratislava on 24 October 2002.
