Ladislav Mňačko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ladislav Mňačko

slovak dramatic, politic writer and bookwriter

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1919

Place of Birth: Valašské Klobouky, Zlín Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1994

Profession: writer, playwright, journalist

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Ladislav Mňačko

  • Ladislav Mnacko (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 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, 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 helped selflessly a number of Czechoslovak emigrants who came to Vienna.
  • Shortly after the fall of the communist regime in November 1989 he returned home to Czechoslovakia (January 1990).
  • But subsequent political developments and the growth of nationalism in Slovak part of federation disappointed him.
  • After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia (1992), with which he strongly disagreed he moved to Prague.
  • Died suddenly due to cardiac weakness during a short visit of Slovakia and was buried in Lukovištia. Mnacko is one of the few Slovak writers of the 1950s and 1960s whose works were translated into English.There is a permanent exhibition of the study and library of Ladislav Mnacko in Malá vila PNP, Pelléova 20/71, 160 00 Praha 6 – Bubenec, almost identical to Mnacko's study in his Prague apartment.

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