Author · Czechia
Václav Havel
Died in 2011
Václav Havel was born on 5 October 1936 in Prague. Refused admission to drama school, he worked as a stagehand at the ABC theatre, then, from 1960 to 1968, as a stagehand and dramaturg at the Theatre on the Balustrade; in 1967, at the Writers' Union congress, he denounced the party's stranglehold. Banned after 1968, a figure of Charter 77, he was imprisoned several times. President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992, then of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003, he died at Hrádeček on 18 December 2011.
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- TheatreThe MemorandumVyrozuměníVáclav Havel · 1965Literature