Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:30:37 +0200https://english.radio.cz/current-trends-europe-and-us-make-havels-writings-relevant-once-again-says-8205600© 2026 Radio Prague International Sunday was the fifth anniversary of the death of Václav Havel, the Czech dissident who led the Velvet Revolution and went on to spend nearly 13 years as president. But before he became a politician, Havel was, of course, a playwright, and it is just his literary work that is the focus of the book Reading Václav Havel by David S. Danaher, a Slavic Studies expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When he visited our studios recently, we discussed, among other things, Havel’s legacy and relevance today. But I first asked Danaher what had led him to Czech. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/danaher_david.jpg?timestamp=1590551677 https://english.radio.cz/current-trends-europe-and-us-make-havels-writings-relevant-once-again-says-8205600 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9