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Milan Kundera

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Kundera, Milan
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Date of birth
1929-04-01
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Brno

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Milan Kundera (UK: 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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.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.

Kundera was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000. In 2021, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia, Borut Pahor.

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Milan Kundera is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981.

Last modified: 2020-12-09 (revision #46840)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Das Leben ist anderswo (suhrkamp taschenbuch 377)Paperback3-518-36877-X1989
AbschiedswalzerPaperback3-518-38315-91991
Das Fest der BedeutungslosigkeitHardcover978-3-446-24763-52015
Das Buch der lächerlichen LiebePaperback3-596-29264-61990-10
Die UnsterblichkeitPaperback3-596-10672-92001-04
Die Unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins (SZ Bibliothek edition)Hardcover3-937793-00-32004
Der ScherzPaperback3-518-38189-X1990
Das Leben ist anderswo (suhrkamp taschenbuch 1950)Paperback3-518-38450-31992
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6343
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kunderamilan
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51691735
Wikidata ID
Q93166

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