Ladislav Mňačko
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Ladislav Mňačko (28 January 1919 in Valašské Klobouky – 24 February 1994 in Bratislava) 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 Socialist Republic 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 invasion to Czechoslovakia by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact in August 1968 he emigrated again, this time to Austria, where he lived for the next 21 years. In 1968 and 1969, he aided a number of Czechoslovak emigrants who came to Vienna.[citation needed] In January 1990, shortly after the Velvet Revolution, he returned home to Czechoslovakia, but subsequent political developments and the growth of nationalism in the Slovak part of the federation disappointed him. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992, with which he strongly disagreed, he moved to Prague. He died suddenly due to cardiac weakness during a short visit to Slovakia and was buried in Lukovištia.
Mňačko is one of the few Slovak writers of the 1950s and 1960s whose works were translated into English.[2]
There is a permanent exhibition of the study and library of Ladislav Mňačko in Malá vila PNP, Pelléova 20/71, 160 00 Praha 6 – Bubeneč, almost identical to Mňačko's study in his Prague apartment.
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 978-1-884964-36-7.
External links
- Literárne informačné centrum (LIC): Ladislav Mňačko Biography on litcentrum.sk (Slovak)
- Study and library of Ladislav Mňačko in Prague
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