Books

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.

The collection of Václav Havel’s presidential speeches dealing with the topic of European integration.

The book Praha Václava Havla. Průvodce po stavbách spojených s životem dramatika, disidenta a prezidenta (Václav Havel’s Prague: A guide to buildings connected to the life of the playwright, dissident and president) focuses on buildings in the city linked to the life of that extraordinary figure.

Biography of an important film producer in the First Republic and Protectorate eras.

A collection of essays about scientific knowledge and natural wonder of man.

The book contains short essays, which were published as editorials of the magazine Vesmír.

The book contains short essays, which were published as editorials of the magazine Vesmír.

The photographic book presents unique black-and-white shots from the years when modern history was formed.

An unusual, informative and entertaining book in which 80 congratulators wrote, painted and photographed their greetings (the challenge was 75 words, sentences or lines and one question) for the birthday of Ivan M. Havel.

A collection of recollections, letters, reviews and studies focused on the world premiere of Václav Havel’s The Beggar’s Opera, which took place on 1 November on 40 years ago. Texts by Anna Freimanová, Václav Havel, Andrej Krob, Sergej Machonin, Luboš Pistorius and Jaroslav Vostrý are supplemented and illustrated by period photographs by Bohdan Holomíček. Organised by Anna Freimanová.

The only authorized biography of Václav Havel. Second, expanded and revised edition.

A collection of texts mapping the injustices Václav Havel had to face in the normalisation period.

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

Knight comic by Filip Topol from 1984.

A collection of selected speeches given by Václav Havel serves as a summary of his contribution about the purpose of European integration.

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

Prostřednictvím kočky (By Means of a Cat) is a collection of the earliest literary texts by one of the key figures in the New Wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s (Joseph Killian, Case for a Rookie Hangman), known to the general public above all for his engrossing diary, Deník 1959–1974 (Diary 1959–1974), which was Book of the Year in the newspaper Lidové noviny in 2004.

The only text by Václav Havel dedicated to children. Czech-English edition.

New and complemented collection of Václav Havel´s graphic poems.

A personal story of remembrance, Czechoslovakia and war, 1937 – 1948.

Havel navždy (Havel Forever) is a book of Oldřich Škácha’s photographs capturing Václav Havel between 1975 and 2011.

A groundbreaking monograph exploring the intellectual world of Václav Havel.

A visionary essay by Václav Černý warning of the great power ambitions of Russia.

A study exploring the roots of Václav Havel's thinking.

A collection of thoughts on Václav Havel.

Bilingual collection of dispatches from the U.S. Embassy in Prague in November and December 1989.

Transcription of Václav Havel's court trial in January 1989.

Collection of underground poetry inspired by Václav Havel.

Speeches from 1989–1996.