Ladislas Dormandi

Ladislas Dormandi, also known as László Dormándi, was a Hungarian-born French publisher, translator and novelist who wrote in Hungarian and French.

Dormandi was born on July 14, 1898 in Dormánd, 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. Dormandi's first novels were published in Hungary under the name László Dormándi. Between the two World Wars, he was also active as a translator and publisher, of for example Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig.

In 1938, the Dormandis fled Hungary and settled in Paris. During World War II, Dormandi worked for the clandestine publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. 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.

He became a French citizen in 1948 and died in Paris on November 26, 1967.