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Ladislav Grosman
Slovak novelist and screenwriter (1921-1981) · Czechia · On the map · Writers · Died at 59
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.
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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.
