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Václav Havel

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Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the…

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Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
Presidential Medal of Freedom
honorary citizen of Budapest
Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
Annual award ACFK

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