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Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ⓘ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. [1] [2] Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
Barton, initially intending a joint biography of Jiří Hájek, Jan Patočka, and Václav Havel, narrowed his focus to Havel's story due to its complexity.Barton, deeply interested in Havel's underground years and psychological undercurrents, spent years researching his letters and documents, aiming to explore Havel's ideas and influences.
The topic of how best to resist a totalitarian system occupied Havel's mind after the launch of Charter 77. This became the crux of his essay, which was one of the most "original and compelling pieces of political writing" to come out of the Eastern Bloc, according to Havel biographer, John Keane.
Wilson is a leading translator of Czech literature into English. Among the authors whose works he has translated are Václav Havel, Josef Škvorecký, Ivan Klíma, and Bohumil Hrabal. [1] His translation of Škvorecký's The Engineer of Human Souls won the 1984 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. [3]
The first English translation, by Vera Blackwell in 1967, used this title. In 2006, Canadian translator Paul Wilson published a new translation, titled The Memo at Havel's request. [1] The play is a black comedy that parodies bureaucracy and conformity. Havel wrote it prior to the Prague Spring of 1968 as an ironic satire dissenting against ...
In January 1990 he became the spokesman, press secretary and advisor to President Václav Havel. [2] From 1992 until 1997 he served as the Ambassador of Czechoslovakia and subsequently (from January 1993) the Czech Republic in the United States.
Letters to Olga (Czech:Dopisy Olze) is a book compiled from letters written by Czech playwright, dissident, and future president, Václav Havel to his wife Olga Havlová during his nearly four-year imprisonment from May 1979 to March 1983. [1] [2] (Havel was released
In 1993, the Republic's first president, Václav Havel, had little difficulty achieving victory on the first round of the first ballot, but his re-election bid proved bumpier. In 1998, he was elected with a cumulative seven-vote margin on the second round of the first ballot. [ 38 ]