EPISODE · Sep 9, 2024 · 17 MIN
Milan Babík: Heading Havel Library after 30 years in US
from Prague Talk
When Milan Babík was appointed director of the Václav Havel Library recently his name was not familiar to many. That is in large part because he had spent the previous three decades in the United States, where he effectively emigrated as a teenager, in search of educational opportunity. When I spoke to Mr. Babík at the Library, a stone’s throw from Prague’s Národní, we discussed the institution’s mission and perceptions of Václav Havel today. But our conversation began with his own early life.
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When Milan Babík was appointed director of the Václav Havel Library recently his name was not familiar to many. That is in large part because he had spent the previous three decades in the United States, where he effectively emigrated as a teenager, in search of educational opportunity. When I spoke to Mr. Babík at the Library, a stone’s throw from Prague’s Národní, we discussed the institution’s mission and perceptions of Václav Havel today. But our conversation began with his own early life.
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