vaclav havel

     

This world leader was the recipient of an Obie Award in 1984

Trivia about vaclav havel

  • "The Art of the Impossible" is a collection of writings by this Czech playwright & president
  • "Protest" is a semi-autobiographical play by this president of the Czech Republic
  • This Czech president's play "The Garden Party" was long banned in his homeland
  • This former Czech president's "Letters to Olga" is a volume of correspondence he wrote to his wife while in jail
  • Courageous central European president seen here
  • President of Czechoslovakia from 1989-1992, he was elected president of the Czech Republic in 1993
  • After the cancellation of Czechoslovakia, he took on the role of president of the Czech Republic
  • He worked as a stagehand in Prague before writing plays such as "Temptation" & before becoming a president
  • After this Czech denounced the Soviet invasion of his country in 1968, his plays were banned
  • In 1994 this politician & playwright was awarded the Philadelphia Liberty Medal
  • In 1989 this writer took the lead in forming the Civic Forum which opposed Czechoslovakia's Communist regime
  • This world leader's letters from a Czech prison to his wife Olga were published in 1983
  • In the first year of the republic, 1993, Vaclav Klaus was prime minister & this other Vaclav was president
  • His "Zahradni Slavnost" or "The Garden Party" was first produced in Prague in 1963

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