Day: May 4, 2015

In 2005, Havel spent several months in the United States, partly in New York, and partly in Washington, DC, where

In the summer of 1991, Havel wrote a series of thoughts about his conceptions of democratic politics and his hopes

One of Havel’s first major speeches abroad was made in this city, to a joint session of the United States

On June 9, 1965, on the twentieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Havel gave a

In October, 1979, Havel and five other Czech dissidents were given prison terms varying from two to five years for

In 1975, when the repression of the Prague Spring – called “normalization” – was more or less complete, Havel wrote

In the mid-1980s, Havel wrote an introduction to an anthology of his plays published in Toronto, by 68 Publishers, because

This is one of the earliest summaries we have of Václav Havel’s early life. It was written, with evident reluctance,

Between 1985 and 1986, Havel conducted a series of interviews with the Czech journalist Karel Hvížd’ala, who was living in