# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ladislav-grosman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:09:09.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ladislav-grosman"
name: "Ladislav Grosman"
slug: "ladislav-grosman"
description: "Ladislav Grosman was a Slovak novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for being the author of The Shop on Main Street, 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."
tagline: "Slovak novelist and screenwriter (1921–1981)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-02-04"
deathDate: "1981-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             15.64327485380117
  historical:           7.006552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343309/"
    handle:    "nm0343309"
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislav_Grosman"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3500198"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1290920"
    title: "Ladislav Grosman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump