Student Essay: Is There Room in the Czech Republic for People of Different Cultures and Religions?
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: December 16, 2015, 18:30 – 19:30
Announcement of the results of the seventh edition of the Václav Havel Library’s Best Student Essay competition.
One of the key genres of Václav Havel’s work is essays – on literary, artistic, social, political, and spiritual topics. His essays, such as the The Power of the Powerless and A Word About Words, have become classic texts of Czech literature; they have been translated into tens of languages, and are among the few truly world-famous works of Czech culture. This is also why it is necessary to keep cultivating the essay genre in the Czech language – not in the sense of imitating Václav Havel’s writing, but in the spirit of his courage to name unpleasant problems and search for unconventional solutions to them.