WRITER

Václav Havel

1936 - 2011

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Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Václav Havel has received more than 2,570,701 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Václav Havel is the 76th most popular writer (up from 116th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Writer.

Václav Havel was a Czechoslovakian playwright, dissident, and politician who is most famous for his role in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

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  • 106

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  • 3.63

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Notable Works

Dálkový výslech
Biography & Autobiography
The president of Czechoslovakia discusses his political and theatrical work, and his view of recent events in Eastern Europe
19863 / 5
To the Castle and Back
2007
The Power of the Powerless
Fiction
Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, political, and fiscal aspects of risk management; land-use planning and building code enforcement regulations; insurance issues; emergency management systems; and managing natural and manmade disasters.
19855 / 5
The increased difficulty of concentration
Czech drama
1972
The memorandum
19813 / 5
Vyrozumení
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Václav Havel ranks 76 out of 7,302. Before him are Li Bai, Charles Perrault, Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, and Jorge Luis Borges. After him are Arthur Rimbaud, Maxim Gorky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hesiod, Henrik Ibsen, and François Rabelais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Václav Havel ranks 3. Before him are Pope Francis, and Silvio Berlusconi. After him are Sepp Blatter, Alan Alda, Yves Saint Laurent, Barry Barish, Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Redford, Ken Loach, Mikhail Tal, and Amancio Ortega. Among people deceased in 2011, Václav Havel ranks 4. Before him are Steve Jobs, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-il. After him are Osama bin Laden, Elizabeth Taylor, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Peter Falk, Wangari Maathai, and Sócrates.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 9 out of 1,200. Before him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), and Milan Kundera (1929). After him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Edmund Husserl (1859), and Jan Žižka (1360).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Václav Havel ranks 3. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), and Milan Kundera (1929). After him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Karl Kraus (1874).

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