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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
Mar 28, 2024 · 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 · 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...
Jul 12, 2023 · Kundera has died in Paris at the age of 94, the Milan Kundera Library said Wednesday. Kundera's most popular book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, follows a tangle of lovers before and...
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Jul 12, 2023 · CNN — 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...
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Jul 12, 2023 · Milan Kundera, one of the biggest names in European literature in recent decades, has died in Paris aged 94. His best-known work was his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Anna...
Jul 12, 2023 · Milan Kundera, Czech novelist known for ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ dies. Czech writer Milan Kundera, pictured in 1967, has died. He was 94. (Jovan Dezort / Associated Press) By...
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