Ludvík Vaculík

Ludvík Vaculík
Vaculík in 2010
Born23 July 1926
Brumov-Bylnice, Czechoslovakia
Died6 June 2015(2015-06-06) (aged 88)
Dobřichovice, Czech Republic
OccupationWriter
Author
Journalist
NationalityCzech
Notable works

Ludvík Vaculík [ˈludviːk ˈvatsuˌliːk] (23 July 1926 – 6 June 2015) 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.