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Václav Havel Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

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The Václav Havel Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature contains letters of the dramatist, poet and president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel (1936–2011) to his wife Olga, written from prison between 1979 and 1983. Havel’s unique prison correspondence documents the life of this significant artist and philosopher, as well as the life of his wife before 1989.

Location

  • Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
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Languages

  • Czech

Name of collection

  • Havel Václav

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

Content

  • manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 100-499

Geographical scope of recent operation

  • international

Founder(s)

Date of founding

  • 1979

Place of founding

Creator(s) of content

Collector(s)

Important events in the history of the collection

Access type

  • visits by appointments

Author(s) of this page

  • Kůželová, Michaela

References

Havel, Václav. 1988. Letters to Olga: June 1979-September 1982. London: Faber and Faber.

Havel, Václav. 1999. Dopisy Olze. Praha: Torst.

Keane, John. 2000. Václav Havel: a political tragedy in six acts. New York: Basic Books.

Suk, Jiří. 2013. Politika jako absurdní drama: Václav Havel v letech 1975-1989. Praha: Paseka.

PNP. 2017. Výroční zpráva 2016." Accessed October 17. http://www.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz/content/fck/files/VyrocniZpravaPNP2016.pdf.

Havel, Václav, and Jan Hron, ed. 2015. Perzekuce Václava Havla: dopisy a dokumenty z let 1968-1989. Praha: Knihovna Václava Havla, 2015.

Putna, Martin C. 2011. Václav Havel: duchovní portrét v rámu české kultury 20. století. Praha: Knihovna Václava Havla.

Pontuso, James F. 2004. Václav Havel: civic responsibility in the postmodern age. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Kotyk, Petr, interview by Kůželová, Michaela, May 24, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2020-03-04 10:34:45