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About the Authors
Václav Havel
Václav Havel, a playwright and one of Europe’s most prominent moral and intellectual figures, was a leading dissident during the period of communist rule. He was elected as the first president of postcommunist Czechoslovakia, and later served as president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. From April to June of 2005, he occupied the Kluge Chair for Modern Culture at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Václav Klaus
Václav Klaus was prime minister of the Czech Republic within the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic from 1992 to 1993.
Petr Pithart
Petr Pithart was prime minister of the Czech Republic within the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic from 1990 to 1992.