Announcement of Essay Competition Winners
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: December 4, 2025, 16:00 – 18:00
Announcement of the results of the 18th annual Václav Havel Library student essay competition in the presence of students and the jury. This year's theme was: Snowflakes or rocks? Are we really so fragile a generation? Václav Havel's essays, such as The Power of the Powerless and A Word About Words, have become classics of Czech literature and are among the few truly world-famous works of Czech culture. This is one of the reasons why it is necessary to continue cultivating the essay genre in the Czech language – not in the sense of imitating Václav Havel's essays, but in terms of emulating his courage to identify unpleasant problems and seek unconventional solutions to them.
This year’s jury included well-known figures in Czech public life: writer Markéta Pilátová, author Marek Torčík, literary theorist Prof. Jiří Trávníček and journalists Pavel Turek, Lenka Vrtišková Nejezchlebová and Krystyna Wanatowiczová.