Person in history
Ludvík Vaculík
Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 1926)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2015 · June 6
- Known as
- writer, journalist, opinion journalist, prose writer, and radio editor. Citizenship: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
Their story
Who they were
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968.
Path and career
Awards / honours: Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, class III, Czech State Award for Literature, Jaroslav Seifert Prize, and Karel Čapek Prize.
Death Vaculík died of natural causes at the age of 88 on 6 June 2015 in Dobřichovice , where he lived by his son. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ^ "Zemřel spisovatel a fejetonista Ludvík Vaculík. Bylo mu 89 let" (in Czech). Hospodářské noviny . 6 June 2015 . Retrieved 6 June 2015 . ^ Ludvik Vaculik: Writer and dissident whose 'Two Thousand Words' tract led to the Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion
Why this date
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