Václav Havel

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born

October 05, 1936 in Prague, Czech Republic

died

December 18, 2011

gender

male

website

http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/Index.php?&setln=2

genre

Drama, Poetry

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Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). 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 Czechoslovaki...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 1,759 ratings · 253 reviews · 69 distinct works

	The Garden Party and Other Plays 3.77 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 by Václav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 116 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala by Václav Havel, Karel Hvížďala, Paul Wilson (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel, John Keane (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Largo Desolato by Václav Havel, Tom Stoppard (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Memorandum by Václav Havel, Vera Blackwell (Translator), Tom Stoppard (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Summer Meditations by Václav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero by Václav Havel, Paul Wilson 3.81 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Temptation by Václav Havel, Marie Winn (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth 4.24 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
― Václav Havel

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“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
― Václav Havel

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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel

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