Milan Kundera (UK: /ˈkʊndərə,ˈkʌn-/KU(U)N-dər-ə,[1][2]Czech:[ˈmɪlanˈkundɛra]ⓘ; 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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.[3]
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.[4] He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was also a nominee for other awards.[5][6]
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.[7]
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MilanKundera (UK: /ˈkʊndərə, ˈkʌn-/ KU(U)N-dər-ə, Czech: [ˈmɪlanˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went...
Lightness of Being (Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by MilanKundera, about two women, two men, a dog, and their lives in the 1968 Prague...
Kundera is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ludvík Kundera (1920–2010), Czech writer and translator, cousin of MilanKundera...
the depicted subject. The concept of kitsch is a central motif in MilanKundera's 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Towards the end of the...
little pool in pulsing tide an aura round your knees". Czech-born writer MilanKundera in his 2015 book The Festival of Insignificance conveys about the eroticism...
traces de Franz Kafka dans l’œuvre de MilanKundera // In the footsteps of Franz Kafka in the work of MilanKundera" Peter Morgan Ismail Kadare: The Writer...
Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by MilanKundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives...
union sympathized with radical socialists, especially Ludvík Vaculík, MilanKundera, Jan Procházka, Antonín Jaroslav Liehm, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klíma...
Jireš's adaptation of MilanKundera's novel The Joke (1969). At the Fourth Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers Union in 1967, MilanKundera described this wave...
is supposed to do". Similarly, in his preface to his novel The Joke, MilanKundera wrote, "not until the work of Flaubert did prose lose the stigma of...
writer MilanKundera. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the jury, Kundera, who could not attend the ceremony, accepted the award. Kundera donated...
to 2004, was British editor and author Elizabeth West; they have a son, Milan, born in 1997. In 2004, very shortly after his third divorce, Rushdie married...
(1979) by Italo Calvino The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) by MilanKundera Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie Valis (1981) by Philip...
Comedy Theatre with Adam Faith, Jaques in Jaques and His Master by MilanKundera, and Sam in Crossing Delancey by Susan Sandler. His more recent years...
school in Brno (now Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše, later attended by MilanKundera). He failed the first year, and later attended a technical secondary...
are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, MilanKundera, and Edna O'Brien. In addition, the book contains a discussion with...
from Greek mythology, European philosophy and contemporaries such as MilanKundera and the stars of rock'n roll. The title is taken from a song in the...
French symbolist poets). In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), MilanKundera explains proliferation of non-professional writing as follows: Graphomania...
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