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Vaclav Havel (born 1936)

 

Vaclav Havel 1936-2011

Vaclav Havel was a writer and a playwright. He was also the former Czech president.

 


 

From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Havel was also the president of Czechoslovakia.

From 1993 to 2003, he was the president of the Czech Republic.

On January 1, 1990, Vaclav Havel gave his controversial New Year's address to the Nation.

 

Sunday, December 18, 2011, was a sad day. Vaclav Havel died after having lived some eventful 75 years.

This from Reuters:

Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists who became Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless "Velvet Revolution," died at 75 on Sunday.

The former chain smoker died at his country home in Hradecek, north of Prague, of a long respiratory illness after surviving operations for lung cancer and a burst intestine in the late 1990s that left him frail for more than a decade.

The diminutive playwright, who invited the Rolling Stones to medieval Prague castle, took Bill Clinton to a Prague jazz club to play saxophone and was a friend of the Dalai Lama, rose to fame after facing down Prague's communist regime.

"His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon," President Barack Obama said in a statement.

 

Read the entire Reuters article.
 

And here is Reuters' Havel timeline.

 

BBC adds:


In the late 1970s he had become Czechoslovakia's best-known dissident and helped found the Charter 77 movement for democratic change.

Sam Walters, director of the Orange Tree Theatre in London, first staged a play by Havel in 1977 and told BBC News that his political life overshadowed a "wonderful " career as a playwright.

 

 

 

 

 

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