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Václav Havel
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. 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. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of…
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entertainment · Last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011) · writer · playwright · politician · director · poet · film director · human rights defender · dissident · essayist · philosopher · also Václav Havel, Vaclav Havel, Havel
Born 5 October 1936 · Died 18 December 2011 · Q36233
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2026· 20 entries
Around Prague: Czech Television postpones Havel documentary premiere due to elections
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Radio Prague International: Václav Havel and architecture: Brno exhibition reveals a lesser-known side of the Czech president
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BroadwayWorld: F. Murray Abraham and Adam Gopnik to Lead World Premiere Reading of Václav Havel's WARNING at 92NY
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EL PAÍS: Václav Havel, el hombre que ayudó a derribar el Muro de Berlín
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praguedaily.news: Prague Commemorates Václav Havel with a Full-Day Programme
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Expats.cz: Exhibitions, concerts and video-mappings: Prague celebrates Václav Havel on 90th anniversary
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Expats.cz: Václav Havel Library in Prague renamed after dispute: What happened?
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BroadwayWorld: Photos: UNVEILING Will Open in New York to Honor Václav Havel's 90th
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Radio Prague International: Trutnoff Open Air celebrates its “tribal chief” Václav Havel on what would have been his 90th birthday
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Radio Prague International: Un think-tank chileno lanzó un proyecto en nombre de Václav Havel
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Prague Daily News: Less Aircraft Noise Over Prague: Václav Havel Airport Resumes Operations on Main Runway
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Around Prague: TrutnOff Festival, Honouring Havel's Memory, Kicks Off in Trutnov — President Pavel Drops By
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tol.org: Vaclav Havel’s Legacy Rocks On at TrutnOFF
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AsiaNews: Tibet and China lost a friend with Vaclav Havel’s death
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Yahoo: Prague's Václav Havel Library on the brink of closure
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The New York Times: Vaclav Havel
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nytimes.com: Vaclav Havel
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2022· 1 entry
Requested a followup play on similar themes from the Iranian playwright Reza Shirmarz
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2021· 1 entry
The Financial Express: The enduring legacy of Vaclav Havel
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2020· 1 entry
The Village Voice: Václav Havel: The New King of Absurdistan
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2016· 1 entry
Wired: Vaclav Havel and his personal photographers
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2014· 3 entries
freebeacon: Václav Havel and the Power of Words
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Time Out: The Pig, or Václav Havel's Hunt for a Pig
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The Václav Havel Library moved to larger premises at Ostrovni 13, in the centre of Prague
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2013· 1 entry
Fox News: Honoring Václav Havel -- a man who should inspire all Americans
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2011· 34 entries
NPR: Vaclav Havel, Hero Of The 'Velvet Revolution,' Laid To Rest
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The Daily Beast: John Avlon: Vaclav Havel's Heroic Politics of Truth and Responsibility
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The Guardian: Václav Havel: another side to the story
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The Conversation: Václav Havel: a biographer’s account
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The New Republic: In Praise of Vaclav Havel
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Vaclav Havel Dead At 75
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Died 2011-12-18.
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Awarded St. George's Order of Victory (2011).
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“tschechischer Schriftsteller und Politiker”
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“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
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“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”
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“Questa [Praga] è stata una città di libri e conversazioni. Bastava una vinarna [mescita di vino] per trovare idee e coraggio contro la dittatura. Ora c'è la democrazia, e la benedico. Ma quelle idee, quel coraggio e quei libri, temo, non li vedremo più.”
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“Sacudido, manipulado, automatizado, el hombre pierde poco a poco la noción de su ser.”
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“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate.”
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“Podemos comunicar fácilmente de uno a otro continente, pero un hombre no sabe todavía entrar en comunicción con otro.”
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“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.”
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“La sincerità e l'amore devono prevalere sulla menzogna e l'odio.”
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And later revived as a full production in 2014, becoming a New York Times Critic's Pick
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“La tragedia del hombre moderno no radica en el hecho de que desconoce cada vez más el sentido de su vida, sino en que eso le preocupa cada vez menos.”
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“La legalità è il potere di chi non ha potere.”
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“Estamos obligados a luchar enérgicamente contra todos los eventuales gérmenes de odio colectivo.”
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“[Sulla caduta del muro di Berlino] Il nostro passato ci accompagna e dobbiamo conviverci.”
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An Evening with the Family, 1960, (Rodinný večer)
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“There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?”
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“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
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“It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead... to a radically new insight into the mysterious gravity of my existence as an uncertain enterprise and to its transcendental meaning.”
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“Man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.”
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“The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.”
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“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. . .”
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“Creo que el que dice que la política es corrupta y sucia es precisamente quien la convierte en corrupción.”
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“Es ist immer gut, wenn Amerika ein bisschen in Europa verankert ist.”
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“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
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“[Sullo scudo missilistico americano] È sempre un bene, se l'America si áncora un po' all'Europa.”
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“Vaclav Havel’s human rights legacy an inspiration Amnesty International (21 December 2011)]”
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
And was a Foreign Associate Member of the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques from October 1992 until his death
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Was awarded the Quadriga Award, but decided to return it in 2011 following the announcement of Vladimir Putin as one of the 2011 award recipients
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2008· 2 entries
Havel became a Member of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation
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Was also awarded the Giuseppe Motta Medal for support for peace and democracy
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2007· 1 entry
To support Kurdish doctor and human rights activist Yekta Uzunoglu in his legal battle
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 3rd class (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005).
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The former president occupied the Kluge Chair for Modern Culture at the John W
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Brilliant Star (2004).
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2003· 10 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2003).
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Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class (2003).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the White Lion (2003).
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Won award: India (2003).
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (2003).
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Awarded Freedom Award (2003).
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Awarded Gandhi Peace Prize (2003).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Rudolf Schuster (2003).
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Was awarded the International Gandhi Peace Prize by the government of India for his outstanding contribution towards world peace and upholding human rights in most difficult situations through Gandhian means; he was t
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“New Year's Address on Czech Radio & Television (1 January 2003)”
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2002).
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Was the third recipient of the Hanno R
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2001).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil) (2001).
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Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Order of State of Republic of Turkey (2000).
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1999· 4 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (1999).
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“1 January 1999. Quoted at the European Solidarity Centre.”
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“Sulla guerra del Kosovo, repubblica.it, 23 aprile 1999.”
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“Address upon receiving the Open Society Prize awarded by Central European University (24 June 1999)”
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1998· 2 entries
Won award: European Union (1998).
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The jury of the Europe Theatre Prize awarded him a special prize by the President Jack Lang
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1997· 7 entries
Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1997).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (1997).
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Awarded Order of al-Hussein bin Ali (1997).
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Remarried, to actress Dagmar Veškrnová
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Career landmark: Václav Havel's speech at the Rudolfinum in 1997.
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Havel received ex aequo the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
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Havel hosted Forum 2000, an annual conference to "identify the key issues facing civilisation and to explore ways to prevent the escalation of conflicts that have religion, culture or ethnicity as their primary component
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1996· 5 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (1996).
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Awarded Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1996).
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Awarded Order of Rio Branco (1996).
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Awarded Order of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1996).
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Awarded Order of the Liberator General San Martín (1996).
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded Geuzenpenning (1995).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1995).
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Won award: Netherlands (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
“Address to the Prague World Congress of International PEN Club (7 November 1994)”
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1993· 6 entries
Awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (1993).
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Won award: India (1993).
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Awarded Order of the White Eagle (1993).
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Awarded Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia (1993).
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Career landmark: President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003).
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Was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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1992· 1 entry
Havel supported the retention of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic prior to the dissolution of the country
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1991).
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“Statement about the conditions in Czechoslovakia and other previously Soviet Bloc countries. Daily Telegraph London (3 January 1991)”
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“International Herald Tribune (29 October 1991)”
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“Der Prozess der gesamteuropäischen Integration wird offenbar ein sehr kompliziertes, simultanes Spiel auf vielen Schachbrettern zugleich sein." - Rede im Mai 1991 in Aachen anlässlich seiner Auszeichnung mit dem Karlspreis, karlspreis.de”
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1990· 11 entries
Awarded Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross (1990).
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Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal (1990).
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Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal in Middelburg (1990).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1990).
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Awarded Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize (1990).
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“International Herald Tribune (21 February 1990)”
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“Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; quoted in The Independent, London (22 March 1990)”
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“Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)”
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Soon after his election, Havel was awarded the Prize For Freedom of the Liberal International
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Czechoslovakia held its first free elections in 44 years, resulting in a sweeping victory for Civic Forum and its Slovak counterpart, Public Against Violence
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“Disturbing the Peace : A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala; English translation by Paul Wilson (1990)”
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1989· 4 entries
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1989).
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Awarded Olof Palme Prize (1989).
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Career landmark: President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992).
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“Durch Misstrauen gegenüber den Worten kann entschieden weniger verdorben werden als durch übertriebenes Vertrauen in sie." - Rede von 1989 zur Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels, boersenverein.de”
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1988· 1 entry
“Letters to Olga (1988), p. 237”
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1986).
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Havel received the Erasmus Prize, in 1989 the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, and in 1990, he received the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize for his outstanding contributions to the well-being of the wider community
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1979· 1 entry
“we never decided to become dissidents. We have been transformed into them, without quite knowing how, sometimes we have ended up in prison without precisely knowing how. We simply went ahead and did certain things that we felt we ought to do, and that seemed to us decent to do, nothing more nor less.”
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1975· 1 entry
“Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President (8 April 1975)”
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1969· 1 entry
“Letter to the downthrown Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček (August 1969), as translated in Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 115”
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1968· 2 entries
Was banned from the theatre and became more politically active
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The Memorandum was also brought to The Public Theater in New York, which helped to establish Havel's reputation in the United States
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1957· 1 entry
Studied at Czech Technical University in Prague (1955–1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Studied at Akademické gymnázium Štěpánská (1955).
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-10-05.
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