SHORT TAKES : Havel Receives Malaparte Prize
From Times Wire Services
CAPRI, Italy —
President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia received Italy’s Malaparte Prize on Sunday for his work as a playwright during his country’s hard-line Communist years.
The prize is named for Curzio Malaparte, an Italian journalist and short-story writer who died in 1957. Previous winners include Arthur Miller and Samuel Beckett.
“His theatrical works are of great value,” the award’s jurors said. “They originate from his life experience in a totalitarian system but they always deal with the universal problems of man.”
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