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A photographic mosaic of snapshots from the life of Václav Havel.

Unique edition of a 1977 handwritten diary by Václav Havel.

Chilling philosophical grotesque about cat rental and byrocracy, from which there is no escape.

Official speeches and other texts of the first president of the Czech Republic, originated from 1999 to 2006. Please be brief. Interview with Karel Hvížďala, notes, documents. Leaving. A game in five acts.

Official speeches and texts of the first president of the Czech Republic from 1992 to 1999.

Official speeches and other texts of the first president of the Czech Republic from 1990 to 1992.

The fifth volume of Václav Havel's Writings contains the book Letters to Olga from 1983.

The fourth volume of Václav Havel's Writings contains a selection of author's typewritten, samizdat or printed essays, reflections, articles, reflections, feuilletons, obituaries, speeches, prefaces, afterwords, notes, statements, letters, glosses and prose, all of which he wrote in the period between 1st January 1970 and 20th December 1979; 7th February 1983 and 28th December 1989; and the book Remote Interrogation from 1986.

The third volume of Václav Havel's Writings contains his manuscripts, typescripts or published essays, reflections, articles, papers, speeches, prefaces, literals, glosses and prose written before 1969, which we managed to collect, yet not all that he managed to write. We have the knowledge about texts that should be included in this volume, but were impossible to find.

The poetic work of Václav Havel from 1952–1956, including his graphic poems - Anticodes.

The third volume of the printed edition of transcripts of President Václav Havel’s legendary radio programme.

A captivating, existential drama, hemmed in a gold mining scenery of the far north.

Anthology from the conference The Garden Party 1963–2013, featuring contributions from leading experts on Václav Havel’s drama.

Record of a quartet of debates form the conference Europe and the Czech Republic 2113, which the Václav Havel Library organised in cooperation with Ace Academy at the American Center in Prague in May 2013.

A collection of prose by four prominent Roma authors.

The second volume of the printed edition of transcripts of President Václav Havel’s legendary radio programme.

Report on observation of an object, that refused to testify and did whatever he wanted.

Události / faksimile rukopisného sešitu (Events / A facsimile of a handwritten notebook) is a unique reproduction of a letter-collage-sneer by one of the best known “outsiders” of Czech literature, who – thanks to his unpretentious conception of art – had a significant influence on many writers in the second half of the 20th century.

Příběh Edice Expedice (The Story of Dispatch Editions) introduces readers in highly accessible but also faithfully researched form to the “life” of one of the most important samizdat publishers in the then Czechoslovakia, the gestation of which involved Václav Havel. The first part of the book, supplemented with a great number of documentary photographs, describes not only the production of the books and their domestic and international distribution but also the persecution that the creators and readers of the Dispatch Editions faced in the normalisation period.

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.

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.

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

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

Recording of a ceremonial evening at the National Theatre dedicated to Václav Havel.

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

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

An epic documentary by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek following the life of Václav Havel between 1992 and 2003.

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.

Edited highlights of the concert "A Tribute to Václav Havel", which took place at the Lucerna Palace on 23. 12. 2011.

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.