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Václav Havel.
Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)
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About Václav Havel
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.
Everything about Václav Havel →- Occupation
- writer, playwright, politician, director
- Position held
- President of Czechoslovakia, President of the Czech Republic, spokesperson of Charter 77
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic
- Born
- October 5, 1936
- Died
- December 18, 2011
- Website
- https://www.vaclavhavel.cz