Book Gift to Czech Museum of Literature

18.01.2026 / 23:32 | Aktualizováno: 18.01.2026 / 23:39

Screenplay of Václav Havel´s play "Odcházení" (Leaving) dedicated by the author and originally used by Jan Tříska, foremost Czech actor, who played the main role, was the most important part of the donation to the Museum of Czech Literature organized by Jaroslav Olša, Jr. Some 100 books, magazines and literary memorabilia were received by Michal Stehlík, historian and the museum´s director.

Other interesting pieces were a novel "God's Village" by former Czechoslovak Consul in San Francisco Bohuš Beneš with a foreword by Thomas Mann, correspondence by important Czech illustrator and writer Marie Kvěchová (from the collection of late Adolf Lešovský, important Los Angeles-based Czech compatriot), and a set of Czech-language literature written by a members of Czech minority in Croatia (collected by Dept. of Czech Compatriots Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic).

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Michal Stehlík