Letters to Olga is a book that compiles letters written by Czech playwright, dissident, and future president, Václav Havel to his wife Olga Havlová during his imprisonment from June 1979 until the last week of January 1983.[1] (Havel was released when he came down with a high fever and received a medical discharge). Havel was imprisoned by the communist regime of then Czechoslovakia for his involvement with the human rights document Charter 77.
Author Salman Rushdie stated in a 1999 interview, that Letters to Olga was among a small handful of books that he carried with him everywhere he went during his years of hiding from possible execution.[2]