← Pavel KohoutThe Widow Killerby Pavel KohoutFind on Amazon↗About the authorPavel KohoutCzech author and playwright who was one of the leading dissidents of the Prague Spring era. The Executioner is his most celebrated novel, a darkly comic exploration of complicity and guilt under communism.More by Pavel KohoutThe ExecutionerCommunist executioner reflects on his violent role in Czech oppression→White Book→I Am Snowing→Katyña→