To the Castle and Back Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero

Vaclav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. His plays have been produced around the world, and he is the author of many influential essays on totalitarianism and dissent. He was a founding spokesman for Charter 77 and served as president of the Czech Republic until 2003. He lives in Prague. Paul Wilson lived in Czechoslovakia from 1967 to 1977. Since his return to Canada in 1978, he has translated more than twenty books of Czech literature into English, including novels by Josef A kvoreck?, Bohumil Hrabal, and Ivan Klima, and most of Vaclav Havel's prose works. He is based in Toronto and works as a freelance writer and editor.Wilson, Paul is the author of 'To the Castle and Back Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero', published 2007 under ISBN 9780307266415 and ISBN 0307266419.