Books

Síla věcnosti Olgy Havlové (Olga Havlová’s Power of Pragmatism) is a collection of reminiscences and interviews published to mark what would have been Olga Havlová’s 80th birthday.

Příležitostný portrét Václava Havla (An Occasional Portrait of Václav Havel) is a collection of reviews, interviews and essays by leading Czech journalists, experts, politicians and friends of Václav Havel’s.

The first part of the book edition of the legendary radio show Hovory v Lány.

Collection of pieces by authors from the Kampademie circle dedicated to Radim Palouš on his 70th birthday.

Censurováno (Censored), the 15th VHL Notebook, contains a series of letters written by Zdeněk Neubauer, undoubtedly one of the most distinctive and original of Czech contemporary thinkers, to his brother-in-law Václav Benda in prison between 1980 and 1983.

Correspondence between Václav Havel and František Janouch from 1978 to 2001.

Correspondence between Václav Havel and Vilém Prečan from 1983 to 1989.

Stvořitelé světa (výbor) (Creators of the World (An Anthology)) comprises six autobiographical reminiscences in prose by Zdeněk Urbánek (1917 – 2008) that vary in length and tone.

A selection from the Intellectual Diaries of one of the most important Czech philosophers of the second half of the 20th century – Ladislav Hejdánek.

A collection of Václav Havel's texts on theatre - newspaper articles, reviews, profiles, comments on the author’s own plays, philosophical essays, correspondence, speeches, academic papers, and recollections.

Motomorphosis and Ela, Hela, and The Hitch, two early theatrical works by Václav Havel.

A collective monograph exploring the shaping of Czech political culture after 1989.

Anthology of spiritist texts by the grandfather of Václav Havel, Vácslav Havel.

A workbook for secondary school students introducing the life and work of Václav Havel in 14 creative lessons.

The first Czech poetic reflection on the Communist putsch, Victorious February 1948.

Letters that friends of Václav Havel sent to him in prison, which inspired the creation of the world famous Letters to Olga.

History of the unofficial "underground" academy whose activities significantly influenced the thinking of Václav Havel.

An essay devoted to the first published letters that Václav Havel wrote in prison.

Collection on Václav Havel's 50th birthday dedicated to his play Temptation.

Anthology of work by the Thirty-sixers, whose leading figure was Václav Havel.

The emergence of poet Jiří Kuběna as an artist. Foreword written by Václav Havel.

A publication offering in three parts a triple approach to evoking Czech totalitarian everyday life (1948-1989).

The pictorial publication traces the cooperation of President Havel and his castle architect B. Šípek in the years 1992 - 2002 in the renovation of Prague Castle.

A selection of Filip Topol´s short stories, poems and torsos of poetic prose, most of which have not yet been published, brings his world (frienship, the alcohol demon, Prague, desire, love..) closer with an extraordinary urgency and rawness.

A book of recipes connected with Václav Havel – either in the role of a satisfied diner or in an aspect of him as a distinctive chef.

A representative selection of thetre plays by Václav Havel.

In March 1945, Hugo Vavrečka wrote a tale about King Škrábal or Ivan Krasopisec to his grandson Ivan M. Havel. Shortly afterwards, the text was swallowed up by the whirl of post-war events, and so it reaches its addressee (and all the other curious readers) only now - after more than seventy years.

The first full edition of the memoires of the father of Václav Havel and the founder of the Prague district of Barrandov.

The first volume of a monumental diary work by a significant Czech film director.

Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally successful playwright who became a political dissident and then, reluctantly, a president. 

A unique detailed monograph of one of the greatest Czechs of the 20th century written by his close collaborator and friend.

The publication contains 150 photographs by 27 leading Czech authors from the turbulent January days of 1969, since Jan Palach's self-immolation in Prague until his massive demonstration funeral.

The selection of Havel's 25 best essays written since 1965 

From Václav Havel comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism.

A personal political testament originally written by Václav Havel in the summer of 1991 during his first presidential term.

Selected speeches, articles, and interviews by Václav Havel  from 1990 to 2002, devoted to the issues of North Atlantic Alliance, European security and the security of democracy.