Olga Havlová
Wife of President Václav Havel.
Wife of President Václav Havel, who was the first head of state after the fall of the Communist regime. Havlová founded the Committee of Good Will - Olga Havel Foundation. During the Communist regime, she organized numerous meetings of dissidents and was the inspiration for the letters written by Václav Havel from prison published in the book Letters to Olga.
The illustrated project Czech Heroines was inspired by the centenary of voting rights for Czech women and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Czech writer Božena Němcová. It is a joint project by the Czech Centres, the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia and Radio Prague International.
