Letters to Olga

Letters to Olga is a book compiled from letters written by Czech playwright, dissident, and future president, Václav Havel to his wife Olga Havlová during his nearly four-year imprisonment from May 1979 to March 1983. Havel was imprisoned by the communist government of then Czechoslovakia for being one of the leaders of The Committee for the [Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted] - most of whom had been signatories of 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 living in secret locations during the years he was The [Satanic Verses controversy#Fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini|hiding from possible execution].