Ladislav Hagara (born January 15, 1944) is a Slovak mycologist,[2][3] writer and author of mycological publications.
Hagara graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1968.
However he was banned from pursuing his profession as a journalist on ideological grounds—based on articles he wrote protesting the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was registered as a "hostile person" by the ŠtB secret police.
[1] As a part of his mycological scientific research, he has collected and processed more than 15,000 herbarium specimen of mushrooms.
[4] Hagara has also written several social-justice-themed short stories, and novels set in Slovak research institutions.