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Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala

Václav Havel, Paul Wilson

On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, Vaclav Havel looks back on his life in the theatre, the literary politics of his early years and the stagnation that followed the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Havel also discusses his part in his country's struggle to restore morality and civic responsibility to public life and the price he has paid for this.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismKeyword Classifier: Biography -> BiographyActivist BiographyLGBTQ History & LifeVietnam War

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor1990FinalistSecondary source
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    • Karel Huizdala38%

  2. 02 Central places

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    • Czechoslovakia44%

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 42%.