Office of samizdat writer Ludvík Vaculík gifted to National Literary depository

The heirs of Ludvík Vaculík, a prominent dissident and samizdat writer under communism who died in 2015, have gifted his office to the Central Depository of the National Literature Memorial in Litoměřice.

Vaculík was one of the country’s most respected post-war writers and the author of the "Two Thousand Words", a manifesto calling for reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Among the award-winning author’s other best-known works are The Axe (1966), The Guinea Pigs (1970), The Czech Dreambook (1980) and A Cup of Coffee With My Interrogator: The Prague Chronicles of Ludvík Vaculík (1987).