Ladislav Grosman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ladislav Grosman

Slovak novelist and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1921

Place of Birth: Humenné, Prešov Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1981

Profession: screenwriter, writer

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Ladislav Grosman

  • Ladislav Grosman (4 February 1921 in Humenné – 25 January 1981 in Tel Aviv) was a Slovak novelist and screenwriter.
  • He is best known for being the author of The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze), which he adapted into a critically acclaimed Academy Award-winning film in 1965.
  • Grosman became proficient in Czech after he moved to Czechoslovakia's Czech-speaking part in his late twenties, where he worked as a correspondent and editor in the Prague bureau of the Slovak newspaper Pravda.
  • Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he moved to Israel, where he died in 1981.

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