Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera was a poet and novelist born in Czechoslovakia in 1929 who later lived in France, and he became one of the most influential writers of the late 20th century. His novels, which explored themes of human existence, love, and the absurdity of life, gained international recognition and made him an important figure in modern literature.
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- 1929-04-01
- Died
- 2023-07-11
- Works
- 195
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- al-Ḥayāh hīya fī makān ākhar
- Burut
- ha-Hanaʾah sheba-iṭiyut
- Člověk zahrada širá
- Zahradou těch, které mám rád
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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in both Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are…
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- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Weight of History — Self (archive footage)2023
- Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance — Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)2021
- Apostrophes — Self1975
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Milan Kundera ( UK: /ˈkʊndərə, ˈkʌn-/ 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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Before the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the country's ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also a nominee for other awards.
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