Biography of Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel

Václav Havel (Czech articulation: [ˈvaːt͡slav ˈɦavɛl] ( tune in); 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech dramatist, writer, artist, dissenter and legislator.

Havel was the ninth and keep going president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He composed more than 20 plays and various verifiable meets expectations, deciphered globally.

Havel was voted fourth in Prospect magazine's 2005 worldwide survey of the planet's top 100 intellectuals. around then of his passing he was Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He was the organizer of the VIZE 97 Foundation and the important coordinator of the Forum 2000 yearly worldwide gathering.

Havel was one of the signatories of the Charter 77 statement, an establishing signatory, together with Joachm Gack, of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism (starting the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism), and a gathering part of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Havel appropriated numerous distinguishments, incorporating the United States Presidential Medal of Legacy, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the opportunity decoration of the Four Freely Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. The 2012–2013 scholastic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.