Ladislav Mňačko

Ladislav Mňačko (28 January 1919 – 24 February 1994) was a Slovak writer and journalist. He took part in the partisan movement in Slovakia during World War II. After the war, he was at first a staunch supporter of the Czechoslovak Communist regime and one of its most prominent journalists. However, being disillusioned, he became the regime's vocal critic, for which he was persecuted and censored. In the autumn of 1967 he went to Israel as a protest against the Czechoslovak stance during the Six-Day War,^[1] but returned to Czechoslovakia soon afterwards.

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 he emigrated again, this time to Austria, only to return to Czechoslovakia after the fall of the regime in 1989. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, he lived in Prague and died in Bratislava in 1994.

Mňačko is one of the few Slovak writers of the 1950s and 1960s who were translated into the English language.^[2]

Selected works

Smrť sa volá Engelchen (Death Is Called Engelchen), 1959. Translated into English by George Theiner in 1963. Filmed by Ján Kadár in 1963 [1].
Oneskorené reportáže (Delayed Reportages), 1963
Ako chutí moc (The Taste of Power), 1967. Translated into English by Paul Stevenson in 1967.
Siedma noc (The Seventh Night), 1968. Translated into English in 1969.

References

^ Free Europe Research: Mňačko on a protest journey to Israel (16 August 1967)
^ Olive, Classe, ed (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English (2nd ed.). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 1294. ISBN 9781884964367.

External Links

Literárne informačné centrum (LIC): Ladislav Mňačko Biography on litcentrum.sk (slovak)

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Name	Mnacko, Ladislav
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Date of birth	28 January 1919
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Date of death	24 February 1994
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