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Milan Kundera (UK: / ˈ k ʊ n d ər ə, ˈ k ʌ n-/ KU(U)N-dər-ə, Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ⓘ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
Jul 12, 2023 · Getty Images. Milan Kundera was a fierce critic of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and his books were banned there for years. Milan Kundera, one of the biggest names in European...
Jul 13, 2023 · Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kate Webb. Wed 12 Jul 2023 11.56 EDT. In December 1968, a plane carrying Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos...
Jul 12, 2023 · Milan Kundera, the Communist Party outcast who became a global literary star with mordant, sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in the workers’ paradise of...
Milan Kundera, Czech novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet whose works combine erotic comedy with political criticism and philosophical speculation. His notable novels included The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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Jul 12, 2023 · Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94 after a...
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Jul 12, 2023 · Milan Kundera, the Czech writer who became one of the 20th century’s most influential novelists but spent much of his life in seclusion, rarely engaging with the public, died in Paris on...
