Ladislav Mňačko foto 1

Ladislav Mňačko

29. 1. 1919
Valašské Klobouky
—  24. 2. 1994
Bratislava
Genre:
journalism, poetry, general fiction

Complete list of works

prose:
Marx Street (Marxova ulica, 1957, short stories), Death is Called Engelchen (Smrť sa volá Engelchen, 1959, novel), The Taste of Power (Ako chutí moc, 1968, novel), Comrade Münchhausen (Súdruh Münchhausen, 1972, novel)

poetry:
Songs of Ingots (Piesne ingotov, 1950), Drums and Cymbals (Bubny a činely, 1954)

drama:
Partisans (Partizáni, 1945), Bridges to the East (Mosty na východ, 1951), Living Water (Živá voda, 1954)

publicism (a selection):
Israel. A Nation in Conflict (Izrael. Národ v boji, 1949), Adventure in Vietnam (Dobrodružstvo vo Vietname, 1954), What Was Not in the Newspapers (Čo nebolo v novinách, 1958), I, Adolf Eichmann (Ja, Adolf Eichmann, 961), Where Dusty Roads End (Kde končia prašné cesty, 1962), Overdue Reportages (Oneskorené reportáže, 1963), The Aggressors (Agresori, 1968)

works published in German in exile:
The Aggressors (Agresori, Vienna 1968, political essay), The Seventh Night (Siedma noc, 1968, political essay, 1990 in Slovak), One Will Survive (Jeden prežije, 1973, short stories), The Festive Speech (Slávnostný prejav, 1976, short stories), The Giant (Gigant alebo tajomstvo ostrova večnej lásky, 1978), What Intourist Does Not Show (Kam nevodí Inturist, 1979), The Minister`s Death (Smrť ministra, 1972, screenplay), The Lighthouse (Maják, 1972, screenplay), An Event (Udalosť, 1973, in Czech under the title Někdo mě chce zabít)

WORKS TRANSLATED
Mňačko`s novels and reportages have been translated into dozens of languages. Here are some examples:
Bridges to the East (1953 Ukrainian, 1955 Czech)
Marx Street (1958 Czech)
Death is Called Engelchen (1960 Czech, 1961 English, French, 1962 Estonian, German, Polish, Romanian, Russian, 1963 Dutch, Lithuanian, 1964 Bulgarian, Latvian, Portuguese, Italian, 1965 Slovenian, Serbo-Croat, 1966 Ukrainian)
I, Adolf Eichmann (1962 Yiddish)
Where Dusty Roads End (1963 Czech, 1964 German, Ukrainian)
Overdue Reportages (1962 German, 1964 Czech, 1966 Japanese)
The Taste of Power (1967 German, English, 1968 Czech, 1998 Romanian, 2000 Arabic)
Comrade Münchhausen (1997 Czech)