Born 19 February 1894 in Chynorany. After the gymnasium graduation in Nitra in 1916 he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Budapest. After returning home one year later he practiced as an apprentice notary and as a notary in several places of central Slovakia. From March 1939 he worked at the Ministry of Interior in Bratislava. Between 1940 and 1945 he chaired the Union of Slovak Writers. After the war he was in custody for several months. From the end of 1945 he worked at the Ministry of Education. He was pensioned off in 1947. For some twenty-five years he lived in isolation, not being allowed to publish until 1966. Beniak died on the 6th November 1973 in Bratislava.
