Announcement of Essay Competition Winners

Announcement of the results of the 17th annual edition of the Václav Havel Library’s student essay competition in the presence of students and the jury. The theme of this year’s competition was: Could(n’t) artificial intelligence write my essay for me? Václav Havel’s essays such as 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. This year’s jury comprised the following figures from Czech public life: journalist Filip Titlbach, writer and journalist Anna Beata Háblová, journalist Tereza Šídlová, media analyst Josef Šlerka, journalist and poet Jonáš Zbořil.