Václav Havel Biography

Václav Havel biography

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NAME: Václav Havel
OCCUPATION: World Leader, Playwright
BIRTH DATE: October 05, 1936
DEATH DATE: December 18, 2011
PLACE OF BIRTH: Prague, Czech Republic
PLACE OF DEATH: Vicice, Czech Republic

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Václav Havel is a playwright who in 1989 became the president of Czechoslovakia, contining on after the country became the Czech Republic until 2003.

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Václav Havel was a prominent participant in the liberal reforms of 1968, and, after the Soviet clampdown on Czechoslovakia, his plays, which explore the self-delusions and moral compromises that characterize life under a totalitarian system, were banned. Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia in July 1990, becoming the country's first noncommunist leader since 1948.