Ľudovít Didi

Ľudovít Didi (16 January 1931 – 15 September 2013) was a Slovak teacher, dissident, participant in the anti-Communist struggle, and the first Romani novelist in Slovak literature.

Biography Didi was born on 16 January 1931 in Púchov

In 1959–1963, he completed a degree in secondary education at the Teachers' Institute in Nitra. After graduation, he worked at various smaller schools throughout the country. In 1966–1974, he became the head teacher at Special Education School in Vráble. He was fired from this position in 1974 for his "anti-socialist" views. and as factory workers signed Charter 77. After the fall of Communism in 1989 the National Committee in the district of Nitra rehabilitated him, and he became the director of a children's home in Kolíňany. There he worked as a director until 1998. In 1992 the Prague University of Economics and Business, after his complete rehabilitation, awarded him the Ing. degree. In 2007 the National Memory Institute granted him the status of "participant in the anti-Communist struggle."