Milan Kundera
Author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is dead
The novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, published in 1984, made Milan Kundera world famous.
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The award-winning Czech-French writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94.
Czech-French writer Milan Kundera has died at the age of 94. The Czech media unanimously report this – including “Radio Prague”. The world-famous and award-winning author died in France on Wednesday (July 12).
He lived a secluded life in Paris
His best-known works include “The Book of Ridiculous Love” from 1969 and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” from 1984. The novel made Kundera world-famous and is set in communist Czechoslovakia.
After leaving the Czech Republic, he spent his life in seclusion in Paris: Milan Kundera had lived in exile in France with his wife since 1975. In 1979 he was stripped of his Czechoslovakian citizenship by the communist regime. In 1981 he took French citizenship. In his works he dealt critically with communism and his own past, among other things.