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Václav Havel

Born

in Prague, Czech Republic

October 05, 1936

Died

December 18, 2011

Website

http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/

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: 4.07 · 15,431 ratings · 1,598 reviews · 235 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Power of the Powerless 4.22 avg rating — 2,919 ratings — published 1978 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Audience 3.81 avg rating — 1,019 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala 4.18 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1986 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zahradní slavnost 3.63 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garden Party and Other Plays 3.88 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 4.29 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer Meditations by Václav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Largo Desolato by Václav Havel, Tom Stoppard (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1985 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero by Václav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2006 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memorandum by Václav Havel, Vera Blackwell (Translator), Tom Stoppard (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Václav Havel (?)

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

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

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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.”
― Vaclav Havel

tags: life

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May 2023 New School Classics Poll

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 1939, 231 pages

58 votes, 22.3%

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 1940, 222 pages

57 votes, 21.9%

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, 1956, 273 pages

48 votes, 18.5%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 461 pages

31 votes, 11.9%

The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel, 1978, 176 pages

30 votes, 11.5%

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, 1915, 144 pages

26 votes, 10.0%

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger, 1964, 422 pages

10 votes, 3.8%

260 total votes

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