Ladislas Dormandi
Ladislas Dormandi (also known as László Dormándi; 1898–1967) was a Hungarian-born French publisher, translator and novelist who wrote in Hungarian and French.
Biography[edit]
Dormandi was born on 14 July 1898 in Dormánd,[1] a village of the Austro-Hungarian Empire located since 1918 in Hungary. In 1924, he married the artist Olga Székely-Kovács (1900-1971) whose sister Alice Székely-Kovács (1898-1939) was a psychoanalyst and the first wife of Michael Balint.[2][3] Dormandi's first novels were published in Hungary under the name László Dormándi.[4] Between the two World Wars, he was also active as a translator and publisher, of for example Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig.[5]
In 1938, the Dormandis fled Hungary and settled in Paris.[6] During World War II, Dormandi worked for the clandestine publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit.[7] After the war, he became a successful writer in French under the name Ladislas Dormandi. He was awarded the Cazes Prize in 1953 for his novel Pas si fou.[1]
He acquired French nationality by naturalization on 8 April 1948 and died in Paris on 26 November 1967.[8][1] Dormandi's and Olga Székely-Kovács' daughter Judith Dupont (born 1925) is a well-known French psychoanalyst.[6]
Bibliography[edit]
- In Hungarian
- Vihar (1920)
- A tűzsárkány (1921)
- Sólyommadár (1927)
- A jó ember (1930)
- Két jelentéktelen ember (1937, translated in French as Deux hommes sans importance)
- A bajthozó tündér (1941, translated in French as La Fée maléfique)
- Trópusi láz (1941, translated in French as Fièvre tropicale)
- Zárás után (1942)
- A félelem (1946)
- A mű (1948)
- A hórihorgas és a köpcös (1965)
- A múlt zarándoka (1968)
- Bábszínház (1968)
- In French
- La vie des autres (1944, translated in Spanish by Julio Cortázar as La vida de los otros)
- La péniche sans nom (1951)
- Pas si fou (1952)
- La Traque (1955)
- Le fantôme de la rue Babel (1956)
- Tu mourras seul (1957)
- L'ombre du capitaine (1958)
- Plus heureux que l'enfance (1960)
- Le naufragé de la terre ferme (1961)
- Le compagnon de voyage (1962)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Le souvenir de Ladislas Dormandi". Le Monde (in French). 4 May 1970. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Biography : Olga Székely-Kovács". artfinding.com. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Alice Balint née Székely-Kovács (1898-1939)". psychoanalytikerinnen.de. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Dormándi László". mek.oszk.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Molnár Ákos: Első Élmény". epa.oszk.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Judith Dupont". sigourneyaward.org. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ Jean-Luc Einaudi (2004). Franc Tireur: Georges Mattéi, de la guerre d'Algérie à la guérilla (in French). Editions du Sextant. ISBN 9782849780060.
- ^ "Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets". Gallica. 1948-05-23. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
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- 1898 births
- 1967 deaths
- 20th-century French novelists
- French publishers (people)
- 20th-century Hungarian novelists
- Hungarian publishers (people)
- Hungarian emigrants to France
- Naturalized citizens of France
- French male novelists
- Hungarian male novelists
- 20th-century French male writers
- 20th-century Hungarian male writers