Letters to Olga

Letters to Olga
June 1979 - September 1982

Translated from the Czech with an introduction by Paul Wilson

Faber and Faber, London, Boston

Contents

Preface
Introduction
I. Letters 1-17
II. Letters 18-86
III. Letters 87-128
IV. Letters 129-144
Notes
Glossary of Names
Index

First published as Dopisy Olze (cerven 1979 - zari 1982) in 1983 by arrangement with Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg
Published in Germany as Briefe an Olga in 1984 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg
Published in Canada as Dopisy Olze (èerven 1979 - záøí 1982) in 1985 by Sixty-Eight Publishers Corp., Toronto
First published in English in the USA in 1988 as Letters to Olga June 1979-September 1982 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto
First published in Great Britain in 1988 by Faber and Faber Limited 3 Queen Square London WCIN 3AU
This paperback edition first published in 1990
Reprinted 1990 and 1991
Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc

Copyright © 1983 by Vaclav Havel
Copyright © 1984 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg
English translation copyright ® Paul Wilson, 1988
"Letters From Prison" by Vaclav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson, was originally published in Spring 1987, Number 21 issue of Granta

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Maxmillan Publishing Company for permission to reprint an excerpt from Letter and Papers from Prison: The Enlarged Edition, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, edited by Eberhard Bethge, Copyright
© 1953, 1967, 1971 by SCM Press Ltd
Reprinted by permission

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0-571-14213-3