International awards


    For his literary work and civic activities, especially as a human rights champion, Vaclav Havel was awarded numerous prestigious international prizes:

  • The Erasmus Prize –1986
  • The Olof Prize – 1989
  • The Simon Bolivar Prize - 1990
  • UNESCO (Prize for teaching of Human Rights)-1990
  • The Chalemagne Prize - 1991
  • The Sonning Prize - 1991
  • Theodor Heuss Prize (1993)
  • The Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor - 1990
  • Medal of Honor by Bush
  • Jackson H. Ralston Prize by Stanford Law School – 1994
  • Holder of honorary doctorates of the universities:

    • 1982

  • York University, Toronto, Canada
  • Le Mirail University, Toulouse, France
    1990
  • Columbia University, NY USA
  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Frantisek Palacky University, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
  • Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia
  • Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    1991

  • The Free University of Brussels, Belgium
  • St. Gallen University

     

    Books and Plays:

  • Candles in the Dark Foreward by Havel


  • Spontaneous Mind Preface by Havel


  • The Art of the Impossible politics as Morality in Practice: Speeches and Writings, 1990-1996 by Havel


  • The Beggar’s Opera by Havel


  • Disturbing the Peace a conversation with Karen Hvizdala by Havel


  • The Garden Party by Havel


  • Largo Desolato a Play in 7 Scenes by Havel and Tom Stoppard


  • Open Letters selected writings, 1965-1990 by Havel


  • The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State Central-Eastern Europe by Havel


  • Summer Meditations by Havel


  • Temptation a play in 10 scenes by Havel
    Vaclav Havel or Living in Truth 22 essays pulished on the occasion of the Award of the Erasmus


  • Prize to Vaclav Havel by Havel


  • My Companions in the Bleak House by Havel and Eva Kanturkova


  • Irreconcilable differences? Explaining Czechoslovakia’s Dissolution edited by Michael Kraus and Allison Stanger by Havel


  • Postnational Identity critical theory and existential philosophy in Habermas Kierkegaard, and Havel by Havel and Martin J. Matustik


  • The Year of the Frog by Havel and Milan Simecka translated by Gerald Turner


  • …I Never Saw Another Butterfly… Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 editted by Havel and Hana Volavkova


  • Image Processing: Analysis and Machine Vision by Havel, Milan Sonka, Roger Boyle


  • The Night of the Barbarians: Memoirs of the Communist Persecution of the Slovak Cardinal by Havel, Jan Ch Korec, Emil Vontorcik, Richard Gaughran, Ivan Reguli, Jan Chryzostrom, Pope John Paul II


  • Open Letters: Selected Prose by Havel


  • Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with Human Rights Movement by Havel


  • The Memorandum by Havel


  • Increased difficulty of concentration by Havel


  • Redevelopment by Havel


  • The Prague Summer of '68 by Havel


  • Letters to Olga (from prison) by Havel


  • Letter to Husak (to post prevent) by Havel