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Biography of Vaclav Havel
Name: Vaclav Havel
Birth Date: October 5, 1936
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Nationality: Czech
Gender: Male
Occupations: president, playwright, activist
Vaclav Havel
A world-renowned playwright and human rights activist, Vaclav Havel (born 1936) became the president of Czechoslovakia in December 1989, a unique position in European history. His literary brilliance, moral ascendancy, and political victories served to make him one of the most respected figures of the late 20th century and led his country to be one of the first Eastern European nations to be invited into NATO.Vaclav Havel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on October 5, 1936, to a wealthy and cultivated family. His father was a restaurateur, real estate developer, and friend of many writers and artists, and his uncle owned Czechoslovakia's major motion picture studio. The coming of World War II did not much disturb the Havels' lifestyle, and young Vaclav grew up amid the trappings of luxury, with servants, fancy cars, and elegant homes.Deprived of High School EducationThe 1948 Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia radically changed the Havels' lives. Their money and …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…part in it is in Newsweek (December 18, 1989).For a look at Havel as the new president, see Craig R. Whitney's interview in the New York Times (January 12, 1990), which reveals the chaotic good humor with which the new regime was initiated. More sober are Michael Meyer's "End of the Affair," Newsweek (April 30, 1990) and Richard Z. Chesnoff's "The Prisoner Who Took the Castle," U.S. News and World Report (February 26, 1990) which provide cogent analyses of the problems facing the new government. Finally, an important and balanced profile of Havel is given in William A. Henry III's "Dissident to President," TIME (January 8, 1990). See also Vaclav Havel: The Authorized Biography (St. Martin's Press, 1993); Alfred Horn, ed., Czech and Slovik Republics (Houghton Mifflin, 1993); Vaclav Havel, "The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World," The Futurist (July-August, 1995); Vaclav Havel, "The Hope for Europe," The New York Review of Books (June 20, 1996); and "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" (June 22, 1995).
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