Martin M. Šimečka

Milan M. Šimečka is a Slovak author and journalist. He was one of the Slovak authors who published in “Samizdat literature” during Communism. His novel The Year of the Frog has been translated into English, French and other languages and he won the L. A. Times Book Prize in 1994. He was one of the founders of the revolutionary public movement against Violence in Slovakia in November 1989. Martin also founded the independent publishing house Archa. He later became editor-in-chief of Domino-forum. He acted as editor-in-chief of SME, Slovakia’s leading daily newspaper, and later as editor-in-chief of Respekt, a well-known Czech weekly. He has been a commentator for Dennik N, a newly founded daily newspaper in Slovakia since 2016.