Books

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).

Speeches by President Václav Havel from 1999–2003.

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.

This volume of the edition "VH´s plays into pocket" includes one act plays Audience and Vernissage, which are centered around Václav Havel´s most successful character Vaněk, a banned writer. Timid, yet principled hero does not want to subordinate to the dictate of the police state nor to fail his beliefs and tries to live according to his conscience.

Interview with Karel Hvížďala, notes, documents.

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.