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Václav Havel

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Born: October 04 1936

Died: 1717 12 20112011

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Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He wrote over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted 4th in Prospect Magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

Beginning in the 1960s, his work turned to focus on the politics of Czechoslovakia. After the Prague Spring, he became increasingly active. In 1977, his involvement with the human rights manifesto 'Charter 77' brought him international fame as the leader of the opposition in Czechoslovakia; it also led to his imprisonment. The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" launched Havel into the presidency. In this role he led Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic to multi-party democracy. His thirteen years in office saw radical change in his nation, including its split with Slovakia, which Havel opposed, its accession into NATO and start of the negotiations for membership in the European Union, which was attained in 2004.

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Václav Havel

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Books from Václav Havel

...I Never Saw Another Butterfly...

The Power of the Powerless

Audience

Freedom from Fear

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

The Garden Party and Other Plays

Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala

Zahradní slavnost

Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

Largo Desolato

Summer Meditations

The Memorandum

To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero

Odcházení

No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems

Temptation

Letters to Olga: June 1979-September 1982

Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World

The Velvet Underground: New York Art

Freedom from Fear